Date.
Locality.
1853. far. 17. Leong
Nature of Siracy .
wen wan. 2 for vessels, while at anchor at Leong
1853 Jan. 28. Chung toh
kook at
Teep fook .
1853. Mar. 2.
1853 Mar. 3.
Sven wan
during the night,
were taken
possession of by pirates and sailed off
westward.
A passage boat attacked by pirates armed with tharp knives; money was plundered, and bhun Aisee was cut
and drawned.
A For vessel attacked by pirates.
4 For vessels attacked and taken by
Pirates.
Alarge For vessel attacked by pirates.
Cotal number of Piracies reported.
(True Copy),
27.
Maine Colonial Secretary.
(Copy) No 22.
Sit
H. M. St. Sloop Hermes,
Hongkong, 9.
136
March, 1853.
In pursuance of your order of the 14th.
inst., I proceeded to sea in H. M. St. Sloop
under
my
command on the
to
morning of the 5th but, owing to the fog which prevailed on that day and the next, I was able only to go Chelang), where I obtained intelligence of the pirates alluded to in the letter of Mr. Wilson. On the night of the 7th. I passed near 5 vessels
Sailing
as
it
were in order
of battle off Bicaker
Point; but, as mistakes might
the darkness, and as soure
arise
owing
to
of them might. ____
escape, I passed about 12 miles to the east = ward of them, and anchored till daylight. On the 8th. I returned; at 7 A. M. observed 5
Captain C. L. Massie,
Senior Officer in China,
&c.,
fe.,
&c.
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