Com
Boar
of
Trad
June 17. 1948 Mr Bonham
Victoria Hong Kong
4246
2. Mclosures
Howes has been effectest.
Release of Mr Vector
C9
Copy.
Fir
H... Malampers", Hong Kong
March 3. 1868.
" I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of
Your
letter of this date with its inclosure, the "China Mail" of yesterday
The information respecting the loss of the "Little" by the marine contained in the letters published therein, is of much too vague a Character to warrant my despatching the only disposable steamer, in pursuit of an object so ill defined & replete with Embarrassments.
Firstly - The Place itself is not determined or clearly known, where the Catastrophe
occurred
Secondly. The Coast in the Gulf of Tongking
is very imperfectly known, and at this season ...
John E. Davis Bart
dorf