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and two hundred dollars paid for the bout, the Viceroy stating that no more could be traced and that he had deprived the station officers of their buttons and rank
and flogged the men. He also apologized to Gully for the intrusion of the Cruiser into Colonial Waters, and he trusted that this would have proved satisfactory.
I would bring to your notice the fact that this opium was being smuggled down the Coast or elsewhere. It is the practice of the opium Hongs in Hong Kong to load a Junk with the drug, which vessel, when ready, hugs the shore by either the Lye-moon or Green Island passage, and having seen the coast clear, runs, as soon as it is dark, for her destination and generally effects it.
A very large business is done in this way. The Junk in question was thus employed when she was captured.
Now I would submit that if the Master lost his Junk and the shop men their opium, they quite deserved it for making British Territory a cover for their smuggling transactions and thus unscrupulously...