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Police Department 28th July.
July, 1866.
Special Report of Piracy.
M.
I. W. Lecomte, Master of
the British Barque "Bonaventure"
States I left the ... sea ... morning of the 26th ...
Pass in the ...
at 3. P.M. observed
a Junk dodging the vessel - at sun down
...
heard the people
on board the Junk loading
...
Guns-
Made
every preparation to repel
any
attack by loading
the
Guns
and
notified ... to the
getting up the small arms...
His Excellency
Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell, C. B.