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"Ordinance for cooperations with "The Chinese Authorities against
"Pracy as far as it is only
I can learn,
on our side that any effort is made in the matter.
As werd
"That, when Stink pots are said to be prohibited in
"Chinese Waters,
only one Captain Farrived with them
more than
"from any Juks from
the other Canton
plan does not perhaps prove anything
they might have been made en route. But
information as far as my information extends, they
are made, carried, and used, in the Chinese rivers, quite unchecked and unchallenged
"and they are certainly carried) the boast without let or hindrance."
3.
I was led to these conclusions,
partly from a multitude of small indications
of daily occurrence, in the work of the Office of the Registrar,
but also from the admissions of defendants in Stink pot cases.
Although I have stated, Stink pots can be made at sea,
no man attaches importance to them.
The appearance of age, covering of dirt,
and mould such as those taken from me,
as from...