CO129-098 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [4-5] — Page 331

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H

was condemned to 10 years' penal

servitude

your

5.o° at an earlier period Excelleney

may

recollect

that a pirate junk which had captured and burnt a European Nessel close outside this harbon under circumstances of great strocity, was recognized shorth, afterwards cruizing among shipping at the anchorage, and that the circumstance having been reported to me by the master

the

f

a

the

the destroyed vessel - then in Chon-boat under medical

treatment for his wounds. she

seized and handed over to

was

the police and hanged.

6 & With

her

crew

of 5 men

reference to daring

acts of piracy within the waters this island. I would point

your Excellency's attention to the the Danish vessel " Chico

case of

here rendered, by which it will

be seen

that

in

a:

January last European Nessel was plundered and bront at one of the entrances of the harbor and that the master and Chief mate were murdered

and barbarously mutilated, and: thers the crew wounded who hach been left below by the

of

pirates in the belief that they