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against firney although as often successful, and doubtlessly exercising
-repressing tendency, are very unsatisfactory, mas much as the Crime is so universal, that cannot but feel on restoring captured junk to its owner or
releasing prisoners,
A
me
that we
we may
have been merely assisting parties who would have been in all
probability the
aggressors
had they
been stronger than their captors.
Under these circumstances
Consideration
I beg to suggest for your whether it is advisable to lay the matter before the Nice Roy, offering to send two of our Gumbouts with
a war
a Chimere official (with or without
junk) to Tirs Bay in order to bring Criminals to justice, or to deal cummarily with the houses and other property of gritty
runaways.
The timidity or culpable
negligence of
the high official whom
the Vice Roy sent last year
in
www junk, to act with two of our
the piratical
Gumbouts
zainst
villages of Deep Bay, discourages the hope that
any effectual
assistance would be rendered
in active measures by such force; but the
a
presence of a native officer would enable us to land