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Letters from Pinckney Walker

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Pinckney Walker to P. S.—It is stated in the public papers that Penguin island, at Angra Pequena, near which the Saxon is said to have been seized, and whence the coal was taken by the Vanderbilt, is a British possession, and was annexed to the Cape Colony at the same time as Ichaboe, but of this circumstance I am not aware, my instructions being only to take possession of the island of Ichaboe, November 17, 1863

From Pinckney Walker
To P. S.—It is stated in the public papers that Penguin island, at Angra Pequena, near which the Saxon is said to have been seized, and whence the coal was taken by the Vanderbilt, is a British possession, and was annexed to the Cape Colony at the same time as Ichaboe, but of this circumstance I am not aware, my instructions being only to take possession of the island of Ichaboe
November 17, 1863

[Enclosure in No. 1.] Rear-Admiral Sir B. Walker to the Secretary to the Admiralty. Narcissus, in Simon’s Bay, November 17, 1863. Sir: I beg you will inform the lords commissioners…

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