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proceedings to a natural termination.
The hospital attenants took the body wahore and laid
it down on the sharf. The Prefect and agistrate returned
to the Telegraph Office and I left with the Viceroy's
Deputy and returned to Chansa to make arrangcashla for
a joint enquiry to be Bold before Mr. Fox.
As quón na the officials had left, ptain White
cleared the ship and kept entries on the punguaya until
half an hour later when an expansive coffin, chich in the
heat and anxiety of the moment the Buhoí gistrate hud
wdertaken to provide, arrived and onsblad tho body to
be removed.
It would, sndoubtedly, have been better for a fiard to
have been placed on board the "Rubehun' immediately after
her arrival, but Captain Lloyd did not at first consider
the situation at all serious. The permission given to the
authorities to vien the body on board in the presence
of the Vice tonel mas a frimdly concession, due largely
to the ill feeling that had been aroused by French
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