CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5] — Page 39

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S.

In the

course

of his inquiry Your Grace will perceive he obtained

as

direct testimony of residents in To tee wan a small village in Gytam Bay. on this Island to the effect that they Summoned by these anned funkts to

Juntes to pay fear of being

Money

and did

So under

were

beaten, a fear not extraordinary considering

the severe wounds and physical punishment

their immediate neighbers

inflicted

om

fin a village

wan not tivo

called

i

miles hom

ол

shores.

19. It

It also

the inquiry

What

during these

These Ined

incursions

also was elicited in the

fredatory

with our waters the Masters of the funks

with a view to diverting the attention of

the Colonial Police

made use

of the ma

mame

ངན་དུ་དོན་ཌི་དང་ལྟ་འདིཊ་ཝར་ ན་ཆ་འང་འཆིས་པའི་ ཚད་མི་ན་ ་ངན་

of the General,

as

having given them premission to maté

their

inquisitorial visito

مات

ست

statement

entirely false as proved by the enclosed

Enclosure No 3 Memo from Mrr Smith himself.

11o Junuary 1868.

10. J. when I bound that such very grop

I contip that I was much stuntled

privatical outrages had occurred, for such alone they

be truly termed, and had

cam

been prerpretated on defenceles inhabitants of this Island, who might naturally have

supposed that, whilst they contibuted

their quota

in license fees que que to this

Government, they were, at least whilst

سرم سند

waters, safe from buch visitations

from foreign attacks.

11. It so happened that

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