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" The boats continued passing and repassing from the junks to the shore, in quick succession, laden with booty, and the men besmeared with blood ! Two hundred and fifty women, and several children, were made prisoners, and sent on board different vessels.... "
Translations from the Chinese & Armenian: With Notes and Illustrations - Page 107
by Oriental Translation Fund - 1831 - 110 pages
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United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal

1830 - 830 pages
...board the vessel I was in ; they were hauled on board by the hair of their heads, and treated in the most savage manner. When the Chief came on board,...respecting the circumstances of their friends, and demanded ransom accordingly, from six thousand to six hundred dollars. He ordered them a birth on deck, at the...
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History of the Pirates who Infested the China Sea from 1807-1810

Yung-lun Yüan, Karl Friedrich Neumann - 1831 - 198 pages
...women in tears, clasping their infants in their arms, and imploring mercy for them from those brutal robbers ! The old and the sick, who were unable to...nothing to shelter them from the weather, which at thistime was very variable, — the days excessively hot, and the nights cold, with heavy rains. The...
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Translations from the Chinese and Armenian: With Notes and ..., Volumes 1-3

1831 - 482 pages
...women in tears, clasping their infants in their arms, and imploring mercy for them from those brutal robbers ! The old and the sick, who were unable to...dollars each. He ordered them a berth on deck, at the after-part of the vessel, where they had nothing to shelter them from the weather, which at this time...
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The Lives and Exploits of Banditti and Robbers in All Parts of the ..., Volume 2

Charles MacFarlane - 1833 - 220 pages
...were unable to escape with the men, owing to that abominable practice of cramping CHINEIB PIBATIS, 17! their feet: several of them were not able to move...them from the weather, which at this time was very variable—the days excessively hot, and the nights cold, with heavy rains. The town being plundered...
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The Chinese Repository, Volume 3

1835 - 604 pages
...their feet. Twenty of these poor women were put on-board the vessel I was in; they were hauled on hoard by the hair and treated in a most savage manner. When...vessel* where they had nothing to shelter them from the heat of the day, the cold of night, or the heavy rains. The town being plundered of every thing valuable,...
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Museum of Foreign Literature and Science, Volume 17

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1830 - 624 pages
...boasd the vessel 1 was in; ttmy were hauled on board by the hair of their beads, and treated in the most savage manner. When the Chief came on board, he questioned them respecting the circumstances of thnir friends, and demanded ransom accordingly from six thousand to six hundred dollars. He ordered...
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