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directions

а

and information, entered

large Bay about 7 miles to the northward

of

procuring a pilot

about 15 miles up

Now Chow:

Isteamed this bay

and 2 or 3 up a Creek,

or river

having scarcely less than 10 fathons of water all the time

A Mandarin then came

а

off at

place named "Man shar

informed

some

wo

the pirater had

and

days ago, having

village and

left

first burnt a

Fakers

with them two

away

of

the mandarin's daughters, for

whom they demanded 1000 dollars

random.

I returned to "Now Chow "

and

and anchored for the night - Mandarin's

pinks

the

also arrived.

Sheard here of a

large number of pirate funks

being

about 60 miles to the Southward at a place, close

a

have

^

to Hanan, where they made

Selltement; but not

having

sufficient Coal and the appearance of the weather and barometer indicating a change for the

bad, I returned to Zien pak.

On Wednesday 12th the

weather was still

mome

threatening

13th it

On Thursday 13 Mat blew hard from the East with the barometer falling.

On

ry