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honest traders or pirates

and as

Puracy the Imperial

as rous convenient

rife at the time,

Government had no

vesels and our Grinbeats were

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Ansufficient, if it had been their duty to sweep the long line of beast

the Admiral came to the conviction that anything short of a total disarming.

of these Tanks would be useless towards the suppression of Siracy, and argoed me to bring it to the notice of the tire Roy. I confess I diet not quite convide with the Admiral's views conceiving that mintil security from Trucy and

trobbery

them of

could be ensured to the Junk

it was

sourocly fair to deprive

of defence,

their only only

and I intimate as much. The Almiral

however, thought differently, and at an interview he had with The Vice Roy about the 17th of November, 1067 he mentioned the subject, and, rather to my surprise, the twe Roy acquieseed and promised to take steps for the entire disarmament,

1 of fishing Dunks, and subsequently issucel

Proclamation dated the 11t

to that effect :

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of April 1868

I had previously, on the

of March, transmitted a draft the Proclamation to the Governor

an order to obtain hei

the

7 bong Hang views; his reply,

however

14th raised no serious

off

objections.

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