the Coast. The result is that in the middle of Summer the City is inconveniently crowded with sailors who have no employment and who are continually getting into trouble. It is very painful to see them waiting and lying about exposed to the sun and weather in a climate as trying as this.
I have already frequently called the Harbor Master's attention to the subject, and have invited Sir Rutherford Alcock to consider the expediency of impressing on all Consular officers at Chinese Ports the necessity for preventing improper discharges of seamen by Masters.
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formed by considerations entirely independent of the circumstances adverted to in Your Lordship's communication of the 17th last December.
I have the honor to be Your Lordship's obedient servant,
Antonio ... M... Martorell
Governor of Hongkong
so that my views as to the conduct of many of that class have been ...
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