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From the personal narratives of some of THE Sunning is a steamer of about three thousand tons burthen, with a crew of about a hundred and ten Chinese and six white officers, registered in the port of London. Her regular run is from Shanghai to Canton, calling at Amoy and Hong-Kong on the way. Often ships of this type carry very valuable cargo, such as silk, specie, and bullion, and are a rich prize for the pirates who for decades have infested the China seas. Until Britain took over HongKong, and Swatow became a treaty port, both places were the headquarters of some of the most ruthless and bloodthirsty pirates who ever ravaged the seas. With the better jurisdiction introduced by this Western power these nests became untenable, and the lucrative trade VOL. CCXXII. NO. MCCCXLIV. of piracy shifted its headquarters to Bias Bay and West River, where it flourishes till this day. In the old days the pirates used to depend upon stratagems to board the ship they had marked down for their prey. Their usual method with the outer barbarians was to trade on their inexplicable chivalry. The pirates would pretend to be in distress, and when the unsuspecting crew of clipper or barque picked them up, the rescuers would find that they had helped aboard not a crew of distressed brothers of the sea but a gang of insatiable and cruel sea parasites, who would reward their gallantry with death. Different times, other manners. Nowadays the pirate problem has been simplified to Q |