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AGE
Law
Officer
by white peosons landing from tohaling slipe, some for Züchen
have remained, not the time of my
visit there were, I think, about light whites in the settlement.
These people - after my deperture met Together & established a
form of Municipal for: electing hat : Savory them thief Mugistrate, & James Morely, & 5. H. Web.
Councilmem.
T.
be
Io ith respect to any claim of Sovereignty that many Joundtrebe upon the right of previous discovery, there is abundant evidence to prove that thate Islands were known Bhavyatore
as early
as the middle of the
16th Century, and were visited
by the Japanese in
Save them the
Lima" (
1675
who
of "Bune
kime
(the enclosed Extracts)
In 1823
there
years before the
visit of Capt Beechey in H.M. §.
was visited groups was
"Blossom", "the group
by a Capt. (offin, in the American
་
Whating Ship "Trawnt." *
Mhus it is plainly shown that the Gort of
H. B. MM. cannot claim the Soverighty upon the ground___ of discovery, and it only
remains
to
ofthier Vessel
*I have ascertained the name prom a Capt Monis, commanding au Qucerican whaling vessel now in this Port.
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