ship was captured without effective resistance
being made the vessel was taken to Bias Bay
and looted of all property of value on
board, any wealthy Chinese passengers being
usually detained and held to rauso. hat
happened in the event of the pirates finding
themselves in circumstances which th atened the
success of their operations may be exemplified
by the case of the British ship "unning",
where the officers succeeded in regaining pos-
session of the vessel, which was then set on
fire by the pirates and was only saved from
complete destruction by the opportune arrival of
& British warship. Cne British offioez
shot and wounded by the pirates, and a British
subject was carried off by them when they left
the vessel in boats. It is unecessary to give
detailed particulare of a state of affairs which
18, unfortunately, only too notorious, but as
instances of oases in which the viotime were
British vessels I may ment on that the "Tungchow"
Was
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