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with
a musket, a pistal
sword only, not
--having any
or an old
cannon or
stink pots. The remaining proportion
have
av ww
の
average
guns a piece
varying from a half pounder to a
12 pounder but the great majority carry & pounders besides a few rusty
arms and about 10 Stins pots
small
each.
3.
In the register
are two large vesels which have b-guns each but
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these when engaged in the fishing gromide protect the
4.
mon
helpless craft.
Unless it can be chewn beyond doubt that velpels under the guise of fishing the great plunderers Ido not think it would be fair to I
are
disarm them alone, as with thir
valuable
cargoe
es
of fish and salt they
would then became
aw
easy prey to pirates and it would lead to a regular system of watching the movemento of the Fiskumen in order to rob them when they had completed then fishing.
In all
pots and small
the funincipal
Las es
arma
meaw
of piracy, slinte
have been found
of offence. The
fermeer is a most destructive missile
and
finds much favor with Pirates
who run down
a
a vessel and throw them on board and in the consternation
and sudder fright of the party attacked
an easy capiture is frequently the result.
why carrying arms.
I se no
reason
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