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praitīj

at a

lown containing

impose 2500 inhabitants, I sent

suppo

for the head wow, who would not

I therefore maste his appearanci), loost is of the most respectable looking of the crowd, which came down to the beach, and informed chern of the object of the Gumboat's visit.

They acknowledged that the

* women had been lasten there by Pirates, but said they had been

removed;

this I look their

; upou

on board and threatened to fire

on the Toww, if the prisoners

within half

not delivered

up

one at a

батираю,

very

were

on the beach.

soon after which the women

brought doww accompanied by

some boo mew.

I then loos

the 4 Chinamen, whom I had

conveyed to the Gin Boas, and -

offered to exchange

women which was

them

fon

the

refused, and

the release of the men demanded. With some insolent remarks, such

as, that "they would soow

by

Domu more

"They

be

joined

fighting mew" that

were not afraid of us", and "what we had fired

wewe

at the torow

au-hour

"and could not

hir it," 1: They

At the expiration of the half-how,

I fired

a shot over the town, and

were told that the shot had

been primposely fired over

the