G 75 of the missing junks to lend him a boat shore and make inquiries if the to go Jouve had just furt in there. This According to request the Master his enclosed declaration stated his inability to comply with in consequence of the smallness of his complement of viz: 105 including Engineer, Firemen, Sailors and all Chinese. The Master however offered to proceed and did proceed inside the bar off the town, where he beat Foo-a-thing the boat which he required), boat returned to the Steamer in the evening of the 9th/11th March, without Poor a thing), but with a request from him that the Steamer would wait a could go to a day or five till he another part of the least and inquiries about the Junks, to which make inquiries Vide printed, Encl 20 Page A. proposal the Master accepted, agreeing wait for him till the 29th March.
The Master then states that he to was alarmed at the piratical appearance of some Janks in his neighbourhoods, and are conversant with the proceedings of any Pirates m The West Coast, or enjoying the advantage, which I have of personal communications with Her Majesty's Naval Officers, acquainted with the locality, well imagine cality, can that the Master of an w armed! Steamer protected by only 10 Chinese and boys, might entertain reasonable ground for alarm, and if his vessel had been attacked and taken by Pirates under the hope of finding cargo and treasure on board, his confidence in remaining, where he was,