to size the Hive (lurking at the Band.
cutlery
effect this all that is necessary is a city of fast pace and tear large fishing junks of 700 to 800 tons capacity well-armed and well manned - provided - that is to say - that if action is taken - it is taken at once.
He it can very be from any state only
It is time that circumstances will continue as they do now - in face of a powerful - decisive "blow, such as will crush the Association there and then. It is so difficult to keep accurately informed as to the movements of the different piratical junks, it is so certain that the capture of the pirate vessels involves - as I am informed it does now - the capture of the centre of the organization and the very vitality itself of the whole system, and lastly it is so very improbable that - after the warning given there they will continue to commit their depredations in the small class of vessels which they now chiefly attack.
men who are at once
that
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that delay would greatly enhance the difficulties in constantly it will not be possible
the way
at a later period to fit out an expedition with so little cutlery, owing to the fact that English Gun Boats are no longer allowed by the Admiralty's instructions to go in pursuit of the Pirates, and the
the Chinese Guns. Dealers refrain from doing so, Pirates become bolder, and believing
have
that if a Gun Boat is not sent after them nothing else will be sent, they have taken to using smaller and more
to using craft
expectations vessels than formerly,
so that it is now possible to effect with those Fishing
junks alone on ordinary occasions it would require
Gun Boats to effect.
Lastly
it is not
easy to catch the Pirates "in flagrante delicti" for witnesses can be procured from all sides to give evidence against any of the Band in any of the above mentioned junks - provided always that
their