CO129-57 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7] — Page 22

"Town wharves heavily armed

native Parts fitted up with Stink bot-baskets and

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every

Kind

Affensive weapons to be used for "uratical partones and that" pirae. is text un by Ammunitio

"expplied by the Shops of Stoughtong; I instructed the Chief Superintendent office and the Anbour Master

to report to me on the subject.

They emphatically deny the first part of Mr. Bridges' statement that diratical sencls habitually

Create themselves in Hong Kong.

M May nys "singularly inconcous" and "its

the Statement is

"author whose

Mami

I did not

mention to him) would

appear

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to

be not only unacquainted with

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arm themselves

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"the Colony of Stoughtons - but with the usual mode of equipment a the regular Traders which invariably heavily

self-defence. Mr Man states that pirates who would be almost certain of detection take care to avoid Hongkong and to confine themselves to places of ixfers. He

does not think that pirates are

largely supplied in Tonghong

with arms and ammunition

(though such cases sometimes

the neighbouring

as the

recur) as

Esland

give them markets for their pluni.