CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5] — Page 63

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myself and found the shop keepers congregaten in the street. They

on

ceemeń excited. I took the interpreter with me and went board the junks. Jasked them through the interferetes what they had come here for _ and they said that they had permission from The Smith to search the junks for salt and to see what juntes has left chimere territory

a

License. I.

without carrying arked if they had a paper from Mr. Smith_ They said "No" when we asked his Smith

for

fermission he said "That will do"

I consideres, the ease suspicions

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after by Spill recount.

2. Carol

with fr

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is I told them to stop where they

were until I could send into

Stong kong to make inquiries about them. I am not aware that

body attached to

any

my office had boarded these junks before I did.

Isaich to the

one out"

men on the junk "you ought to take out an anchorage fas" and the Interpreter said- "They are willing to lake Inever said how much they would. have to pay for it and I never bolch the Interpretes to tell thems. The junks had been in a little

more

than an hour before I bounded them. I have received no report

that the men of the junke squeez

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