night as
well as
by day; so that the number
of passengers that might Pasily have been
Carried was uselessly restricted. Compelled
-
to provision rice and cabbage rating
Chinamen on a
their
them in
scale never
Enjoyed by lives except on gala days.
Bound to carry a suppily of medicines
XC. &C.
sufficient for a voyage of 200
instead of a dozen days;
Moreover
not one in a
passengers w? touch
Directed to carry
A n
στι
Wh medicines
hundred
of the
any
account.
interpreter when
I of the officers & crew spoke malay,
3
4
& some
the Chinese language, & a dozen
Chinamen belonging.
to the Vessel spoke
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the passengers had so far got over their ignorant fear of the man who cut off legs & scooped out eyes as to allow him to feel a pulse or look at a tongue.
What wonder that British Vessels unable to obtain a rate of passage monly
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that we make up for these losses sxpenses are gradually falling out of the trade wh will not support them, whilst their places
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may
are
taken by continental Vessels
run under the old custom.
It is a fact that an
English Vessel will
hardly be looked at
be looked at for a Charter, now,
for the British Possessions in the Straits a. Continental Vessel is obtainable & that
if
ordered to
in
rarely be
malay or English or both, Carry a Surgeon who could obtained, or if obtained, and be at the 2nd thie 10 days' passage before many of
of the
the
any
Case
the former could not
Expect above 2 the charter money
corresponding foreign
a
obtain.
that
readily
Vessel w?
time by
this
I have not sufficient
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