(behind Pasoda Deland at the head of Dias Bay, where I arrived at noon on the 29th having anchored for the previous night in Miss Bay and left there at 6 a.m.. At As-chung I liberated the two men of the junk moved by the tre Aknew and Ayck, but was unable to get at either the man See-a-ser who had taken her, or the two, Yung hak and Lee-yung-a-hap who had detained her and who appear to be respectively the Father and Grandfather of the Pirate; I succeeded however in procuring for the owners of the junk the sum of $100 in compensation for the losses they had sustained in the following manner.
A man professing to be a friend of See-a-ser came on board, and Yung-a-hap sent me the above sum to go away and cease my attempts to arrest his friend; this I of course refused, but detained Yung-a-hap as a hostage for the appearance of See-a-ser. On the following morning another friend came on board, who offered the $100 as compensation from See-a-ser to the junk owners, asking me to settle the matter in this compromise manner, and this (as it agreed with the views of the Mandarin official