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In 1957/53
Victoria, Hongkong,
249
10th May, 1853.
Having been requested by Captain
Eldor of the ship Emigrants to give him
my opinion
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to the prudence of prosecuting
abandoning his intended voyage
to Demerane
on
founded upon the conversation I have had with most of the Chinese Emigrants board, and from the observations I have been able to make while visiting the ship in my official capacity, I hereby certify that; from the feeling of dissatisfaction which I have noticed to prevail on board
amongst the greater portion of the pas - Sengers, and the expressed determination on the part of many to return to their homes, from the dangerous
menaces which I have
heard fall from several of the most diesa . -trefied, should the ship proceed
on the
voyage, and, from my experience of the Chinese character, knowing that such