2.
would be followed as to provisions
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board.
In regard to expenses incurred
my
recent voy a ge
voyage
I have to
observe that I slept on board
the "Reynard" 27 nights; or reckoning inclusively days of
embarkation and debarkation,
I was altogether 33 days on board;- that she carried a large quantity of stores to 4. M. brig
"Pilot" at Thanghac,
and
was moreover
ordered to touch at Loo Choo in
conformity with a despatch just received from the Foreign Office;- that in order to spare
all m unnecessary inconvenience and expense, Itook no chaplain with the only two Chinese on board
me-
connected with me,
mrice supplied by
στι
fed principally
me
—
and
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the commander and myself elept,
dressed and ate in one and the
fame cabin.
When Tremind Your Excellency that the British Government, although contributing nothing to the endowment, have the nomination to the Bishopric of Victoria; and that the arrival of a bishop has brought also into this Colony two English clergymen for the work of
sducation, and a third also as
chaplain to our seamen prequenting the port, with a floating church raised at the expense of several hundred pounds to which the local Government has contributed nothing, it is to be hoped that the British Government wile not for a moment think that they purchase too dearly the presence of an English