CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8] — Page 299

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was at this place ales that fient

Walker some months

ago seized men who had kidnaffed

Aree men

in

the harbor of Hong Kong a boat containing a whole

a whole family auch sent back the facher for

facker for the ransom

of the rest which being reforted to

by the latter be

me by

was

sent in

a

bun Drosk to point out the droelling

F the

Kidnaffers who

were

tried and convicted, and

suzed,

are now

undergoing 10 years fenal servitude

in Hong Kong

Gaol. Having Lach

Lach considerable

experience relative to firacies perpetrated in the vicinity of Hong Kong I do not doubt that a great if not

a

chief portion of the offenders,

inhabitants

there is the

of

are

of Deep bay- generally large village of Yume-leong

and I am told that they

are a

terror

to the natives trading to this bork

Native boats laden with stone are

frequently robbed by them of their

money and clothes and it is usual

for

a number

boats to sail

of together under convoy of

an armed junk. The Gun Broat met on this occasion 10 Stone bouts this escorted in the neighbourhood of Deep bay.

I beg to observe that there would be but little difficulty in bringing offenders to justice and shortly futting

an euch to these