occupy
that place
at
whilst
of
30 blue
detachment
(Marines were
A
and
jackilö placed at the Prefects
disposal to expport his forces in closing # the hills and marching across the
island.
were
These arrangements forthwith carried out, and, although
the dense thickel's with which the hillsides
wen covered
the inhabitants
every
gave facility for concealing themselves, 20
prismers
were taken during the day,
and 5 men were killest
by
shots frum the party crossing the island. Mum wan was set fire to, and a number of "Snake boats were destroyed there by
Sieutenant Mainwaring.
The islands being this compiletity
465
in the prosesion of the somfurial Troops, the Prefect
and his colleagues resolved
to leave the texts of hunting the remaining inhabitants out of the brushwood in the hands of the Heang than Brigadier
and to return with one to Canton at me.
He undertook to station 12 heavily junks,
with smaller
ammed
gum vessels, in this Straits, and to leave several hundred
troops in the Villages, pending furtheri
Canton, and I strongly urged.
orders
from
him to order the fortifying of a small- islet called Kai sum. Chno/H) lying at the Western end of the Straits and completely animanding the passage. This point,
and the permanent garrisoning
of
the islands, the Prefect undertook to