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begged me to be good enough,

to

hand over to the Mandarin at Kowloon, I retained these Pirates

on beard, and today,

Ou

my

return to Hongkong,

delivered thew

with the witnesses against

te the said Mandariiv löguher

thew.

Returning today from

Plover love, and when just

as the

entrance of lecking junks appeared beating in,- directly they observed the Gun Bear,

Tolo Channel, 2 suspicious

They

san the

to the nearest Junko shore, I endeavoured ti out them

but before I could do so, they

enough to

escape

to

reached near

the beach, soud in

songans, some

by swimming, excepting 2 whom I look prisoners.

Bork of these junks had beew

-

captured from traders, the one

first

Mured the other, and

lären, had

captured

board were portions of the original

on

creus, who had been kept prisonews.

I am

missionary,

informed by the Italian

chat at a

village called

Sa- tan-Nest (Starling Jules) the fread

maw of a

numerous

Pirate

gang -

of one of the

resides, and the owners

I re-captured junks informs me, thas his junse

fitted

везер

out as a

was taken there and

Pirate, and manne

from the village; he states

by 43 mew from

moreover, that 9 other junks

aver