CO129-252 - Acting Governor Barker & Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1891 [12] — Page 410

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of Kwangtung, and is periodically flooded with them when the hust for them

grows

hot on

the mainland. According to

a Chinese Estimate

it for what it is worth

we five

there

and

are at the present moment not less than two thousand perates ar would be pirates in the Colony, and they only wait the opportunity to declare their predatory too often brutal initiness. The Namoa uincy furnisher instructive Example of the ability, forethought, daring and resource of the desperadoes, with whom we have freckon

and whose rendition, when

applied

an