wicked.
house. This association is very Formerly it was named Fai Kwan () but on account of a spy bringing it to grief, it changed its name to Hein Wan Shang (r). It is said that they have already worked harm to the spy; so that now no one dares to meddle with them. Great caution will be necessary in dealing with this establishment, else harm may be done to it. If it should recover ... of ... no saying ... caution ... with this ... Conce ... itself there is ... itself ... what awful things it might do, fatedly in Hongkong, both ashore and afloat, there have been from time to time unaccountable cases.
...es of death, or mysterious murders not a few. If there not a reason for this?
The above is a rough, but, I hope, fair and intelligible translation of a communication which I have received, and which is in my possession. The writer is a good and true friend of the Government, and his reasons for communicating anonymously through a translator are obvious.
St John Chalmers.
September 14th 1886.