To return to the specific instance from which this digression began, Rear-Admiral Bruce seems to have been persuaded at last to dispatch the Plover in search of the pirates. She left on the morning of the 26th of November, taking with her Mr. Barton, of the Consular Service, Civil Magistrate for the Territory, a couple of old men who professed to be able to guide them to the pirates' lair, and a couple of soldiers of the Chinese Resiment. Twenty hours brought them to Thornton Haven, where evidences of a recount piratical visitation were not to seek. Here information was obtained that the Hung Hu-tze had left for another island in four stolen junks the previous day.
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