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Macao, strong powerful boats unarmed, and as their capture assumed to offer hopes of extinguishing
: for all this elaborate system of piracy, another
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expedition was fitted out and on the 1st March Mr Batten accompanied by Chinese mandarin set off in the direction of Macao.
Therefore
9. Just in Portuguese waters and inaccessible to the gunboats after the day one of the gunboats which Mr. Batten had expressly gone, but as a compensation for this, another pirate called "Si maila - hu" - half Chinese, half Portuguese - after being followed into Chinese waters was captured with his gunboat before he had time to make resistance. This pirate was found eventually to be one of the presiding members over the Piratical association "Besides sundry weapons & other articles found on board there were also the three sons of the pirate and a woman.
10. The woman stated that she had known the pirate for eight months and had been present with him in three piracies, one attack having been made on a junk in
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