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methods in the coarse of the voyage.
If the ship
was captured without effective resistance
being made the vessel was taken to Bias Bay
and looted of all property of valne on
board, ang wealthy Chinese passengers being
usually detained and held te ransom. What
happened in the event of the pirates fluding
themselves in circunstances which threatened the
success of their operations may be exemplified
by the case of the British ship "sun:ing",
where the officers succeeded in regaining pos-
session of the vessel, which was then set on
fire by the pirates and was only saved from
complete destruction by the opportune arrival of
a British warship. One British officer was
shot and wounded by the pirates, and a BritisÌ2
subject was carried off by them when they left
the vessel in boats.
It is unecessary to give
detailed particulare of a state of affairs which
is, unfortunately, only too notorious, but as
instances of ember in which the victims were
British vessels I may mention that the "Fungah or"
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