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for

Ut 3 the next morning I steamed

Sooni

uny

is land a notorious ~

peratical haunt; the two or three-

www.

Villages quarters; no

this island being their head

no merchant junks go nearit;

and I have

In

mw recasions

former

found

junks fitting at and arming at this

-place, as pirates

On the N. E. Side of the

istand) is a small well- Amecateds bay,

having

a

Marino

Y YO

and shallow entrance,

where juvitus water. Heere I observed over the

can only get in at high

low land three large junctis, at Anchor,

and in such order as to Command the Manow entrance - knowing that frequently they have their

gions ready trained for

J

1

any narrow

rq

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pass age, I anchord the

Gunboat

as near

W

sandy beach

مة

safe,

and landed in the boats with bluen

jackets.

The surf

ANNA

high

and me

of the boats dragging her anchor was washed up

the beach, destroying

ᎤᏓ.

all the spare Ammunition : Crossing

a narrow neck of land and entering

a

woood, I was enabled to come down on

the bay close to the junks. At this

time there were about 140 men on

board, a number standing by ther

guns

and making preparations for resistance; the resh were hastily removing goods into sampano.

Sampor

m

Finding some

the beach I jumped into

thing with Mr Searle Boatswain