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In the meantime it was thought advisable, in order to stop the course of these piracies, to publish a proclamation, offering the king's free pardon to all such pirates as should voluntarily surrender themselves, whatever piracies they had been guilty of, at any time before the last day of April, 1699 that is to say, for all piracies committed eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, to the longitude and meridian of Socatora, and Cape Cormorin; in which proclamation, Avery and Kidd were excepted by name.
If 'sporadic' means rebellion from Peshawur to Cape Cormorin revolution, rape, massacre, arson, high treason, torture, death to every European and every half-breed and every loyal native north, south, east and west then, yes, General sahib, 'sporadic' would be the proper word. If your Honor should mean less than that, then some other word is needed!" "Then you confirm my own opinion.
The native huts were made of bamboo reeds and mud, with straw-thatched roofs. A view of their interiors was of course forbidden me on account of that cursed system of caste which prevails from Peshawur to Rangoon and from Cashmere and Thibet to Cape Cormorin and Ceylon. The road was macadamized and shaded by rows of immense trees.
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