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to receive the quantity of coal and provisions (inclusive of the stores

on board), which has been settled, as a general rule, after-

already

consultation with the Naval

authorities and with the Harbour

· Master, i.c. coal for five days and provisions for

for ten days; saigon

being the nearest national Vort. "*

This application

granted, under the supervision, as

usual, of the Harbour Master.

3.

The

Officer Commanding

further

"See Governor to Seey of State N.57 of 3rd Feby. 188

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further applied for permission to purchase here a boat to replace a life-boat (embarcation de sauvetage),

which had been lost at sea. So this

application I at first demurred, but the Officer Commanding declared to me that the boat required

a

was not

fighting boat that could be used in warlike operations; and that if he were not permitted to |

no

acquire it, he would have boat that could be lowered in

in

sufficient time to save life

of accident, such as a sailor

Pa se

falling

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