Some very impressive nicknames appear to be borne by the leaders of the pirate gang which recently seized the Tungchow and for whom the Canton authorities are "searching. "Big Head" and "Flower Pig" are {two of them, according to an official communique' issued by the Canton authorities, and true to the pirate tradition of decades these names probably aptly describe some sort of physical peculiarity which inspired the coining of such choice sobriquets. [These names in the piratical profession are not without historical pre-Jcedent. In one of the most picturesque Jand effective anti-piracy operations fever carried out by British naval forces in China the leader had equally Jas impressive a nickname. To the mercantile profession and anti-piracy forces he was known as "Gameles" because of the lameness in his leg. He was a Cantonese who directed the activities of a large sang owning dozens of well-armed junks, and "is Jeareer ended when Ceptain ©. W. Vansittart, commander of H. M. S. Bittern, at the end of 1855, attacker land destroyed the pirate base outside Ningpo and haunts among the neigh-pouring islands. "Gameleg" was taken Jpeisoner, handed over to the Chinese authorities and executed. As Captain Vansittart reported in his dispatches: "One of the prisoners, a Centonese, lame in the leg, has been long known asa Chief on board these smaller, fand most mischievous piratical craft." Jin connection with this nickname Inabit, a recent case in the local [Chinese courts two very loriginel versions. One of the accused iwas mown 2s "Small Black Coal" fand the other hed affixed to himself the name "OX." in English.
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