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starting for China with the southerly Monsoon with a full cargo of produce
manufactures
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a small number of
return Chinese Passengers, & returning in the northerly monsoon with a smaller full quota of Emigrants going abroad in search of fortune. Owing
Cargo
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to the moderate rates of freight on the
outward passage,
& to the still smaller
freight obtainable for the return passage
w? have been
the voyage to the Straits, unprofitable without the Passenger traffic who was of considerable value notwithstanding the low rater of passage money, owing to the shortness of the voyage Consequently trifling expense of provisioning them, moreover, being deck passengers they
took up
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the
no cargo space; so that their
passage
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passage money might be looked on as
a clear addition to the freight list.
be further mentioned that
It may
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the
these Vessels were seldom laid berthi as "general" ships by the owners; but were usually chartered for the season to merchants who we place them under the charge of
their own
supercargoes for
the Voyage.
You can ravily imagine
with
what crushing effect the Chinese Passengers
act came on
these Vessels.
Forbidden.
to carry passengers Except in the Tween decks, they had to choose between
when both were passengers necessary
& Cargo, to make the Vessel
pay.
Bound to provide a space per head
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unecessarily great for a short & rasy
wh passage during
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w? insist on re
remaining
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the passengers
deck by
night