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"Mr. Bird - and immediately charged with the duty of carrying out his orders, and intending the actual operations of the working gang - is Machado, a Portuguese, overseer of Convicts. This man one would suppose to have been competent to see an obvious danger, but his conduct before His Excellency on the 30th Instant, not merely showed that he had been very indifferent and careless on the subject, previous to Mr Bird's speaking to him on the 26th Ultimo, 6 days before the accident - but that he took little care even ...