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in many places with Practical villages
inhabitated by descendants of
for a long
series
their ordinary
of
a race
which
centuries has diversified.
avocations
of fishing and
tillage with Practical expeditions at
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certain
seasons
of the
year.
a
number of
of
These people maintain
Snake boats and other craft adapted for
attacking vessels that approach too close
to the shore,
incautiously
ON
mere
get
becalmed and anchor
the haunts of these
Pirates. The latter however also possess
vessels heavily armed and adapted for
longer
cruises
though the large
fleets of former days
are
to the
now no
Piratical
longer
efficiency and
assembled owing vigilance of Her Majesty's
Cruisers and
also to the good faith and increased exertions of the Chinese Authorities themselves, who have recently exhibited unmistakable proofs of energy
sincerity
in their
the cruisers.
and
efforts to cooperate with
8. You Excellency will thus perceive that the existence of great numbers of persons trained from their childhood to robbery
is
quite compatible with that of a far
in the same Provinces,
larger
population in the industrious by nature and
and
generally
nature and early training,
trustworthy
law-abiding and obedient
to the Law. Nevertheless the Criminal
class
in the neighborhood is sufficiently
numerous
far
from being
very
small percentage
of it if located in this Colony to work