No doubt the Naval authorities had their reasons good, bad or indifferent. They naturally would like to have definite information of the whereabouts of the marauders; but the pirates, sailing invari ably in a' junk stolen from legitimate traders, are not recognised as they enter harbour ostensibly for water, provisions, trade, or what not, Suspicions may be aroused, but people cannot run off some hundreds of mile to inform a foreign sea-captain that a ship suspected of piratical designs Iny in. a certain harbour on a certain date, So the pirate does his work, thereafter in the Course of time information reaches a channel along which it may flow to official eats, Nor ato the natives sanguine that a report to the British authorities would meet with a satisfactory response.
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