CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3] — Page 280

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taken and proceeded to search

Bays in the i

in the vicinity-

At sam. I discovered two

all the Bays

large junks at

one conuer

o

the

Bary, concealed behind the rocks,

mounted

and having guns but evidently abandoned by their

boarding these junks

of which

I discovered of guns, some the Lorchas men owned as

belonging to their bouts, there

a

also large boxes of Powder,

great quantity of 18 I = shot and Baskets of Stink pots, also sails covered with Blood, and

every

other sign that the vessels

the greatest portion of articles on board were claimed by the Portuguese and Chinese of the Lorchas, four of whom had taken passage in the "Opossum".

The Junks in question

lying

at a piratical village called Typoong (inside the Bay and had Macao registered numbers, the guns and gear belonging

to the Lorchas

were

then taken

out and the junks burnt by

my

orders

I then proceeded to Autor

Bay,

where one

of the Lorchas

-cargoes had been sold, boarding

had been used

for

a

bad purpose -

the

a

way

سیاسی

boat in which