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they had anchored, in the harbour
gig, he would be unable to near them, but the peoples
get
aboard
were in the uniform worn by the Customs beaten, white with narrow sashes.
They saw the lights of the steam launches
and
clearly, of the bay
they patrolled the entrance
on the night of the 9th/10th instant apparently just without the fishing stakes. The distance from the Police Station at the bottom of the bay to a line drawn from
Bluff Head to the northern extreme
of Musking Island, which passes well outside the fishing stakes is
slightly over one nautical mile
cable and a half of
and within
the West point of Stanley Bay.
I spoke with the
masters of the junks who in
addition to Sergeant Hausor's report
stated that on
the night in question,
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