CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12] — Page 358

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Akee alias Ma Asow wong the informer, thieftaker, and tyrant of our Chinese popu -

lation, and the man whom

as the

Boggs denounced by name the person through whom the pirates purchase protation,

and their victims

are

compelled to do the same or bear the consequences,_ is and for years has been a principal and confidential agent of police for the legitimate purposes of that department.

It can be as little

denied that Mr May. Mr

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Inglis, and, I believe, every experienced officer of Police except Mr. Caldwell, is and has ever been,

been opposed to

that miscreants employment,

and that Mr. Caldwell

himself conceives such employment to be highly dangerous, unbes accompanied "with such checks and quards

himselfcopos

as he conceives himse of applying.

bli

I think that, in a trial of skill like that, the

Asiatic genies must triumph over the European. At all events, the ristr is prodigious.