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Fecuriat on the 18th, here the Brandarin

informed me that the Junk-referred

kin

your

Anilue

had been exptured him about a mouth previously, Kat the sunk and prisoners

MIL

had been sent to a city in the interior, confessed to having taken Ruglish "barque and severaí Thinin Janks, off Tin-los-a, and all the crew of the former convicting of Suropians, Malays & Ohmen, they

and murdered and burnt the verrel; the articles taken from the

dunk appear

appear to be chiefly of

Auroscan manufacture, but not

useful

Sglish; the only thing I saw nefic to trace the exptured vessel I

forward with this, being a letter

a

seal, and bottles of melioma.

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I left Troup at with the two

vessels on

the

lunuity s

having on board an

pilot who were sent

the 15th

Ffficial and

by the Mandarin

(as on recount of a report that there band of rebels in the vicinity

бол

were a

he was unable to come himself,

and after touching at Now. chow

Jarrived at Row how on the 19th where I was informed by their authorities that all Piratical vessels leave the coast of Aaman the the S. W., monsoon-

latter euch of

end

come going

to the Chusan Island

others to Cochin China and that if