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any body here,

boarded

any

nor

that they junks bying in the harbon_ Yesterday while I was in shop two boulimem belonging to a junk in harber told me through the Interpreter that there twos punks had been to Poi-lay

a

A

Por-log

and wounded

boahman there in the head because he would not hay a squeeze and that the boatman could be found in one of the Fisherman's matsheds on the island. The boalimen also said that three junks had been squeezed in Stanley and

had

gone

to Pov. loy.-

I dish not board the junks

again until a Gunboat came out from Hong Kong. I never heard the men of the two junks say

that the

Interpreter Chan-a-brong had bried

them out of $5. -

to

squeeze

Cheong. Sat. tion, Master of the Boi

bee shop. I was im Aberdeen on the 6th instant I two armed

Aw

junts come into the harbor.. The

frightened at first

were

people here because they thought the junks

were firale junks.. But when

were

were not

they found out that they Salt Revenue Boals they frightened. One or two fishing boats left the Harbor, for fear they