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myself and found the shop keepers congregaten in the street. They
on
ceemeń excited. I took the interpreter with me and went board the junks. Jasked them through the interferetes what they had come here for _ and they said that they had permission from The Smith to search the junks for salt and to see what juntes has left chimere territory
a
License. I.
without carrying arked if they had a paper from Mr. Smith_ They said "No" when we asked his Smith
for
fermission he said "That will do"
I consideres, the ease suspicions
7 the
after by Spill recount.
2. Carol
with fr
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is I told them to stop where they
were until I could send into
Stong kong to make inquiries about them. I am not aware that
body attached to
any
my office had boarded these junks before I did.
Isaich to the
one out"
men on the junk "you ought to take out an anchorage fas" and the Interpreter said- "They are willing to lake Inever said how much they would. have to pay for it and I never bolch the Interpretes to tell thems. The junks had been in a little
more
than an hour before I bounded them. I have received no report
that the men of the junke squeez