its expression
in Concert
with the Chinese authorities.
There
are
two dangers
chiefly
to be
guarded against,
as would appear, in
any measure
that may
be ultimately taken for the
suppression of Piracy in these
waters. The
One, its Extension
into
the interior, as
the result
of any excessive effort to
drive the Pirates which now
infest the
Coast from their
haunts on the
sea line,
where they might
become
an
ever, and
greater evil than
a new Source
of danger to the Government; the
other
that
any active
Co-operation of Foreign ships
of war to enforce the
disarmament of Junks
would
become an intolerable
injury to the
coast population
on these Coasts, Engaged
in the
deep-sea
fishing and
the traffic in shore from place
to place along the
Coast.
In the present disturbed
state