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board of while

tve

the Junks

her with the rest of the crew,

tvere

employed in burning.

to two mandarins with 40

junks stood in and anchored near the

Gun Book.

came to the

W me

The Officer Commanding

oprossum

at once and

that he had been sent to

informed disting the Junks

we were

and all the Villages

burnings

this island and

Conlan; that he had previously attacked this place tivice and had been

beaten

off

each time. Having

his Junks

Junks in a

Kind

of

Moored

line abreash

he sent on shore several

the village,

hundred soldiers, who,

after his funks

had

guns

search of

played aspon it - entered in

of any purates who might still

be there,

wer

り

am

captured.

not

Hee

aware

that

any

that

Ame

informed an

he had with him a force of 1,600 men.

I regret to say that about this time Mr Thomas, the Boatswain,

and a

boy, being about to set fire to

one of the junks,

and a Marine being

on board another the tivo vessels blew

up nearly simultaneously. Mr Thomas is very badly wounded, and it is feared, that his eye-sight is totally destroyed but this cannot at present be ascertained,

The Marine and the boy

seriously injured.

I at once

are less

handed the

Junks

stills

undestroyed 10 in number- to the

-

umanding officer, together with the