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neighbourhood lite those in Deep Boy have little other occupation than wiracy, and that their operations are

chiefly if not wholly against traders proceeding to or from this Colony. At various times our bunboats have

found junks fitting out coidently

rel

sha

Gunboat

for piratical purposes. Fficer commanding a obliged the head man of a village. to deliver up plundered property; et barching the same officer

at

released 3 women held to released 3 women Can be

and there

ransom, no doubt that the villagers hold constant — communication, with Hong Kong, receiving information as to the

departure of junks- o ferhaps Europen

ill found, and manned small coust

traders

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the

movements of our

Gunboats. If one of the latter

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gets steam up during the day -

information is at once conveyed.

overland to me

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the

numerous

firatical haurits in the Creeks and rivulets, and shallow bays which abound in Tir's Bay and neighbourhood, parts of which

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although from this anchorage by so

some 30 miles distant

sex, are, as

a glance at the admiralty Chart will show, but about a few miles overland, across the

narrow

peninsula which runs S. Eastward