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Mr. W. F. Mayers in Charge of Her Majesty's Consulate at Canton to the Viceroy of the Two Kwang Provinces.
CANTON,
June 1st, 1869.
The undersigned has the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's despatch of the 30th ultimo, forwarding copy of the report made by Major Fan Kan-ting respecting the visit of the Gunboat "Chen-to" to the Pratas Shoal, etc. which he has perused with attention.
He begs to observe in reply that the Pratas Shoal, lying as it does some 170 miles eastward from the coast of Kwangtung, occupies a position in the midst of the China Sea precisely in the track of vessels sailing North or South from the Chinese Ports, as a result of which it frequently occurs that vessels are lost upon it when deviating in even the slightest degree from their proper course owing either to tempestuous weather or defective observations.
Such unavoidable disasters occur on an average two or three times in the course of the year; and it has become a practice with the Junk people of this province to