affected by the death of the Native Doctor of the Guluare", "which occurred in the middle of the voyage, no European surgeon and which if there was without authority 113 as an expression of legal strictions. Whether it is expedient or not to employ Native Doctors is a question to be decided on board by those on board, who must have left the Emigrant ship without any Medical attendance at all.
And in making it evident that we had in our minds what we believed to be the general practice of the Government of Hongkong, rather than what we apprehended to be the requirement of the Law. It was, as Mr. Arrew has fairly described it, an obiter dictum without being on the spot, and in our Report of 19th January we have suggested that Sir J. Bowring should be directed to institute a full enquiry into the subject, and if he should decide against Native Doctors, to report for the consideration of the Secretary of State the grounds of his decision.
In the meantime we would submit that he should be informed, that Mr. Gerrit's interpretation of