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board of while
tve
the Junks
her with the rest of the crew,
tvere
employed in burning.
to two mandarins with 40
junks stood in and anchored near the
Gun Book.
came to the
W me
The Officer Commanding
oprossum
at once and
that he had been sent to
informed disting the Junks
we were
and all the Villages
burnings
this island and
Conlan; that he had previously attacked this place tivice and had been
beaten
off
each time. Having
his Junks
Junks in a
Kind
of
Moored
line abreash
he sent on shore several
the village,
hundred soldiers, who,
after his funks
had
guns
search of
played aspon it - entered in
of any purates who might still
be there,
wer
り
am
captured.
not
Hee
aware
that
any
that
Ame
informed an
he had with him a force of 1,600 men.
I regret to say that about this time Mr Thomas, the Boatswain,
and a
boy, being about to set fire to
one of the junks,
and a Marine being
on board another the tivo vessels blew
up nearly simultaneously. Mr Thomas is very badly wounded, and it is feared, that his eye-sight is totally destroyed but this cannot at present be ascertained,
The Marine and the boy
seriously injured.
I at once
are less
handed the
Junks
stills
undestroyed 10 in number- to the
-
umanding officer, together with the