CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7] — Page 21

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4.

the Honorable East India

Company's Steamer Auckland.

Mr. Caldwell was

directed

to proceed to Im-ti and to apprehend there Ho alipo

should he have returned-

not practicable

if this was not

he was to seize as hostages two of the elders of

of the Village one of them being the chief of the Ho-clan or family

to which Ho alipo belongs and to inform the villagers that these two

men would be detained

in

Houghong until the

briminal Mr. bald well so

>

t

I in quest of

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was delivered up.

ce with Chinese

Long experience.

customs and

лие

only

was

& feelings.

convinced.

that this was the

mode

by which I

likely to obtain the rendition of the fugitive and the vital importance to this community

under

existing circumstances that the murder

au

of ar

English Master by a Chinese

domestic servant should

not go unpunished influenced

ced me in san

this man

in sanctioning

manner of proceeding

which indeed is the

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