CO129-132 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [8-9] — Page 537

48.

49.

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where the large is stated to be

wond, whereas when robbed the

At Cup chee it was

to obtain ather the

Villages

or

names

sonpropith

I the

that of any of the

inhabitants, who committed the

Funk

Avad

The two Pratical

carrying

vessels

Rice and Oil.

als also therein

nobbery

so that

nothing.

alluded to, appear to have been very mythical, and the complainant

Olow

distinctly, states, that the reputed

perates did not rob him.

orders

I

As in both Clauses

the punishment

of my specified

particularly pressed this point

on the authorities and the Mandarin

with whom I

avas

co-operating

At Ting hor I considered:

the necessity

Surrender

wad

removed

by the

by the

of the Guns and

Mandarin's Certificate Chop .

but

general destruction of all the

cursiounding dwellings would have

any approach to Punishment ( this the Mandarin

being

living

Q-1

Boas

AA123IO

to) a fine

impossibility with people.

such abject poverty,

these, and who besides had not

recovered the devastation inflicted by the Squadron of English Gun - boats that visited this place.

November last

in

24 = The necessary repairs to