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us every assistance in conducting
investigation, and
our
have been
very
appear
desirous that
on
to
nothing should be wanting their part to secure the health
a mercantile
and comfort of the passengers; but, in the first place, it seems impracticable for a firm, not making emigration their chief business, to give to the
matter that constant and
watchful personal superintendence, which is altogether indispensable
to
prevent the most deplorable abuses; and secondly, in this case, they have had peculiar difficulties to contend against; for, after the
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ship had been chartered
for the Coolies, the Captain
conveyance of
was
found to be in too sickly
a
state to take charge of the vessel
voyage.
on such a that, the senson
It is a pity
being them es far
advance, Men's Turner + go
did not at once determine to
refrain from sending off more men
until the return of the North hast
Monsoon.
They considered,
however, that they
were not
justified in doing this, and
were
accordingly procured another Marten for the Ship, whom they finally obliged to dismise for intemperance. The
present
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