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with

a musket, a pistal

sword only, not

--having any

or an old

cannon or

stink pots. The remaining proportion

have

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の

average

guns a piece

varying from a half pounder to a

12 pounder but the great majority carry & pounders besides a few rusty

arms and about 10 Stins pots

small

each.

3.

In the register

are two large vesels which have b-guns each but

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these when engaged in the fishing gromide protect the

4.

mon

helpless craft.

Unless it can be chewn beyond doubt that velpels under the guise of fishing the great plunderers Ido not think it would be fair to I

are

disarm them alone, as with thir

valuable

cargoe

es

of fish and salt they

would then became

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easy prey to pirates and it would lead to a regular system of watching the movemento of the Fiskumen in order to rob them when they had completed then fishing.

In all

pots and small

the funincipal

Las es

arma

meaw

of piracy, slinte

have been found

of offence. The

fermeer is a most destructive missile

and

finds much favor with Pirates

who run down

a

a vessel and throw them on board and in the consternation

and sudder fright of the party attacked

an easy capiture is frequently the result.

why carrying arms.

I se no

reason

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