rising, but at that time escaped capture, I now that he has been arrested, brought to trial, & confessed the foregoing, he is truly a man full of crime & cannot escape punishment. The majority of the members of these various societies have escaped to Hong Kong & Macao, where they swarm; at Kowloon & other places robbers are exceedingly numerous, so that the funer...
274 should be taken back to the camp there, & receive the punishment due to his crimes. thereby the majesty of the law will be vindicated. The general will communicate with the Viceroy, as he has handed over the prisoner Hu A-Foong, a head member of the Triad Society, to the escorting Officer