CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12] — Page 123

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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and navigation in the dubi

Archipelags, that satisfactory be received in Honghong in which the Spanish Authorities

I have the honour to state accounts continue to

as to the mode

comply with the stipulations of the

Protocol.

2.

I enclose for Your Lordship's information a paragraph

· the subject which I observed in one

of the Honghong papers

instant.

3.

I

am

on the 13th

sorry however to

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the British authorities at Labuan. It

appears that within the last few weeks Mr. Treacher the Colonial

Secretary of Labuan landed at the.. South side of the Chief island of the Archipelago

and rode twelve miles.

into the interior to

convey

some

documents and messages to the

Sultan.

on

4.

add that apprehensions exist as to a possible disturbance of trade owing to the supposed support the Sultan of Sulu is said to be receiving from

I understand that it

was not the first visit Mr. Treacher paid to the Sultan, and that his a

ostensible object in doing

so was to

act as interpreter. It is, on the other hand, alleged that Mr. Treacher is unacquainted with the subu language (which is quite different

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