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Hong Kong, or Meer Turner Kong,
A2
of Hong
Mless Laprang of Hong Kong.
I have the honor se.
(Signed)
Ballybuckle
I. B. O'Hanrahan.
Waterford 17 Dang 1860.
Dear Doctor, Dear Sir.
I am in receipt of your
letter
directed to the late Captain D. A Brown,
and in the absence of Captain Thomas Sullivan
Mt. Can I now
and at the request of Robert
undertake the painful
duty of informing you
that poor Brown
drowned
at his last
duty
numbered with the dead.
He
was
pilot of
the Bremen Bark Leind in the dreadful
gale of the 29th August last, in which the ship became a
total wreck, with Captain Me Can, mate, 30 Chinese passengers
drowned
out of 41 were
all the crew, save
and
one seaman;
fragment of a body
lost
and not a body found of any
the deceased to mark the dreadful
fate. I was formerly a friend & partner
in pilotting with the deceased in the following business, and it is with painful
feeling I record his untimely and
He lost his life doing
his
duty
in
trying
to save
the lives and property of
others; be found the ship going to pieces, chance to save any of the
lives
the only
on
board,
fastened
pri
to
as
to
get
the
line fast
my dear brave
and
brave friend volunteered to make
the