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at uneher lill dark, when I weighed, and reached "hat how" (a pirali village on crooked island Mir's bay; soon after daylight, Wednesday morning. Am

fisherman

Came m

anchored and

board before

informed

д

me that a pirate

was unchored off the village. On

junks

"Sy.

and then steamed towards

won - chung" another purate village

the North side of the bay

and when half

way ovcross, recaptured a large fishing

junk with her criginal crew, Conristing

if

8 mew and 4 womew

The finales

21 in mumber escaped to the shore flinging

junk

coming in sight of them the crews

of

their

дино

overboard

Ws tve

approached

live

junkis

at anchor close to the village,

eseapred

to it in their boats.

The fisherman belonging to the

pleasure

Village, expressed

appemance of

the

much p

Gunboat

at the

Saying

both

were pirate junks,

which had come in

afier

dark the evening before,

and that

had

we not arrived, they would themselves

have attacked them. I destroyed these

The 8 men, and 4 women had been

oners under hatches tivo days.

Kapt prisone

I allowed them to

go

"Marcus", whither they

on their

way

to

were

bound when

taken, and having previously learnt from

them, think there were no

that

junks ats

the

and anchored

Sy- Won-ching. I steamed.

East side of

for the night.

Mis

bay

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