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and navigation in the dubi
Archipelags, that satisfactory be received in Honghong in which the Spanish Authorities
I have the honour to state accounts continue to
as to the mode
comply with the stipulations of the
Protocol.
2.
I enclose for Your Lordship's information a paragraph
· the subject which I observed in one
of the Honghong papers
instant.
3.
I
am
on the 13th
sorry however to
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the British authorities at Labuan. It
appears that within the last few weeks Mr. Treacher the Colonial
Secretary of Labuan landed at the.. South side of the Chief island of the Archipelago
and rode twelve miles.
into the interior to
convey
some
documents and messages to the
Sultan.
on
4.
add that apprehensions exist as to a possible disturbance of trade owing to the supposed support the Sultan of Sulu is said to be receiving from
I understand that it
was not the first visit Mr. Treacher paid to the Sultan, and that his a
ostensible object in doing
so was to
act as interpreter. It is, on the other hand, alleged that Mr. Treacher is unacquainted with the subu language (which is quite different
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