Is it not provoking, not to say absurd, that at a time when the vessel is treated
the very
as
harshly as if she were infected, the Harbour Master as well as the Officers of Health come on board & go away from her without any kind of precaution? For my part I drink to at once, and therefore cannot but
& protest with all the right and reason given, against the
energy
with which
measures to which this vessel has
been subjected. To give
more
m
force
to my protest, I would have left the port before this, but for the damage to my boilers had not prevented me;
but I will do so as soon as ever
ready, for which they
They
are
working at them from to-day without
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resting. It will also be necessary for
that purpose that I should be provided with 50 tons of coal and some
Riga or Reval
water; I beg that you will please obtain the necessary permission from the proper person, so that the police boat which I have alongside me, may not put any difficulties in the way of their shipment.
God preserve
you. Dry
On board in the port of Hongkong.
29 March 1866.
(Signed) Ricardo G. Salvo.