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deputation from the passengers waited upon me, Among whom was a Mez Khan brother to the Chmière Commissioner to California, and with tears asked if it was the intention to starve them. requests for water were unheeded I offered them all the cooked food there was in the Saloon, which they declined; saying there were nearly 500 hungry people to feed, the Customs office and policeman were witnesses to this fact, and themselves were afraid of there being trouble. regretting they had no arms to protect themselves with. At 5 p.m. I lowered a boat and pulled over towards the passing steamer and made known our wants and as it was likely to cause distress and all my passengers retired had neither food nor water all day, I fervently hoped for a last resource when the pilot steamer came near acting the cause and then steamed to town and reported matters to the Harbor Master. It was then at 11 p.m. that orders were given for the water boat to be allowed to supply the ship with water, which was done at 8 A.M. on the 29th From our arrival provisions for saloon were allowed to be brought from town and placed on Rock, after which the ship's boat was allowed to fetch them, but no communication was permitted. On the last mentioned date the assistant health officer again inspected all on board and found no trace of sickness, and no cholera.
On the evening of the 30th a vessel with coals on board was allowed near us, anchored after which her crew left and proceeded back to town at daylight my vessel was allowed to go alongside, under the supervision of Superintendent Carroll, and my crew took the coals out with strict orders from the Government that no work was to be done after sunset, and it took two days to get 75 tons of coal on board. The ship sailed for Melbourne at 4 p.m. on July 2nd and arrived on the 5th and after most rigid inspection by the Medical Authorities and Immigration Officer was found to be free from disease and granted pratique. 172 passengers were landed also most of the cargo.
Dr.
The ship sailed from Melbourne on the 9th July for Sydney with 228 Chinese (for Sydney) and 8 European passengers / Saloon, for Hong Kong and holding a clean Bill of Health, 12 July arrived in Sydney during a gale and heavy southerly anchored off Watson Bay.