CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848 — Page 349

not I pick it up - we were

busy picking the

bulla

out of the water -

343

Marques

[Signed) Frau. 2. Manoel Ma

boatman

Cheung Ape boutonon state. My Loechs

toas

anchored yesterday evening the Western

Market a

and a

Bakow

mear

w was anchored

me an Ad –

saw upwards of twenty men goou board of her

quantity of fowls ducto Vrice put on bound

Loocha they got foul of us

ad

they passed

and on

our

speaking to them they abused us - I told the Portuguese who belonged to the Lorchia that I thought the boat was a pirate & they went after her - the men all jumped overboard ou

being chased _ I went in chase and saw a number of - bamboo pikes in the water

in the water - the men embarked from the landing place of the fish market in the Weration

X Chinese mark.

Market

Yaony Chaong nguw boatman states - I sau-_-

A

mumber of men go

ou

board of a Hakow last night they took a quantity of things on board but being dark I could not see what they

were.

went with last witness and the Europeans in- Chase & saw the

men in the water - a

quantity

of things were thrown overboard, but Seould not

distinguish what they

tocre

Chinese Signatures.