CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3] — Page 368

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事 that taking day for the purpose of walk; they accompanied for a quarter of a mile in the direction of the village of Mong 12012, by Lieutenant Grantham and Dr. Iweddell of the Ceylon Rifles. The latter gentlemen returned home, and the five former not having Comme back at the usual hour of dinner, a party went in search of them, but no trace was found that night, though swar-heads and broken spear-shafts were picked.

Weng na considerable alarm Rok caused. n to their The following morning, search a mest sweep") Military and instituted by Police, the result of which led to the conclusion that the two absent Cr 4 parties had been murdered, Island. ded and carried off the Or Incendary the fore 26th1⁄2 Ultimo, the body of Captain Da Costa was found close to the shore, d in the sea the wester face of the village of Bang Kok.

The proceedings of the korence's Inquest herewith enclosed will place Your Lordship in possession of all the information with which we have yet beame acquainted. The body of Lieut : Quoyer has not been found, and it is imagined that it must have floated out to sea Notwithstanding the natural disposition inherent in the Chinese for giving a false colouring to every circumstance, however trivial, A cannot but...