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chow:--

Sir,In The Australasian of the 15th inst.

in the volum

SCANDAL-MONGERS.

ou only as

ато

THE CHINA MAIL.

Mails.

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COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES. PAQUEBOTS POSTE FRANÇAIS.

STEAM FOR

POINT DE GALLE "ADEN, SUEZ, ISMAILIA PORT SAID, SYRIAN PORTS, NAPLES, MARSEILLES, AND PORTS OF

COLONEL GORDON IN CHINA. weighing from 3lbs. to 10lbs, being the

London, Oct. 14. The following letter was published in the portion of the malluse held in most esteem,

A ton of these will bring from £120 to £280 Of the evils that aflict humanity I do Australasian, în answer to more atatements in the English market, so that the capital think that the habit of scandal-

i-mongering made by a correspondent signing himself embarked in the business frequently returns ur Jistonirig to scandal is the worst jut

200

and por cent "Vagabond," in speaking of the share Colomantle. Even the divers will earn in good few of us are brave and kind enough to re- 1300 per cent in the twelve how constantly is it not indulged in how nol Gordon boro in the masssure at Soo- acasons from £200 to £340 a piece, which is fuso to listen to it? We do so love

love to PTY. dissipated in a few months among the grog into our

affairs. There is some noighboura debis contracted with the tallynsen in the misfortable sing not only in hearing of the

others, in

ing that i I observe a melancholy proof that the notori-service of the Sydney "merchant" ou tricks played upon travellers have in the Sydney merchant ongaged thero is somebody worse than ourselves If SAIGON SINGAPORE BATAVIA,

nt discovering juick not become things of the past.

We have vors, the Torres Strait and Pacifig fishers

divors,

among those as the

rainbows board much lately of the importation of

artificial mrcius to sink them through the tears of t adulturated tea from China, but I question do not use

solves.

They simply dive, detach the

holes in each. tou overmifered such senchango shells, and in to the surface frequently what a pleasant world it would be to live un whether aty to ever

picking facts concerning the capture of Son with an oyster nuler aneh úrur. The shells The fairer the reputation the more it tempts the chow have andorgons in the na

enarrative furnish-

at once, and the pearls, if |thu calumniator; and alus! when mul is ed to your correspondent The Vagabond are spandl at one

exact cil. The diver then rests for a by a soi-disant son of Taeping rebel.

dising

is quarry, scarcely lives the woman over whom the For brevity's sake I will call from the Vagabond's "lotter a few of the statements the recovers hroth ugh to resume breath of scandal has not passed at one time

monotonous toil. He requirca no or other. stimulus fa, labour save his eagerness for

Now they interpret fucks, and oyen, and the pearl liver wente, his lifo

yet, un by the lon

Al gray word a reputation dies." away"

Budden Think there is no sight so disgusting as 2. The Treping Wang was hosieged in renaling him to luxuriate in ao seu a number of inuen, und men too for Sochi Gordon and the Guvern-abadise of ram, now clothes, and negrohend the matter of that, whispering together,

shallow strail which divides Australia wagging their jaws and shaking their heads

or if iii inore polite society, they

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made to him.

1. The great Taeping rebellion pressed by the Americas, General Ward and the English Colonel Gorlon.

ment.

War.

Gordon gave his word that all should be treated fairly as prisoners of The guten Werth was gave his The Tarlar batsher Li Hung Chow orders, and all were killud. They say

tried and that your Gordon

• Bi hungry, wo fish of his time thrown, some of it is sure to atick. There

of

from New Guinea is strewed with coral

RM

Convey a libel in a fromu, (And wink a reputation down ; Or, by the fossing of the four,

· Describe the Jady und "itas man." The prevalence of slander is lamentable.

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LOANS

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reefs, and banks, and wooded lands

strait is mainly known as the haunt of the pearlehell tishurs, and of tho, collection of that curious sea slug or hudothpic, known Hung how that he would have shot him at..first in his anger for being thus dis-jeing, or béchuler Bir no 2014 | To my opinion 'the receiver is worse in to be sunt on board; they must be left at Sugar Dobon-

in favour with Chinese

ino Baroncai honoured. But the nextday his Scotch caus tion prevailed, or Li Hung Chows too ook has yet introduced to a European the thief pyet how few of us are kind and the Aroney's Office.) powerful. This is all true. Ask wry Euro the delectalde amp conesc cu out of its brave enough to try to arrest or turn asido glutinous hora. This ugly looking the flow of what spreads like an inundation, encumber i

er is gathered on the révis after the gathering and accumulating as it solle on-

Eri is tido goes out, and dried in the smuke-honses and de

poet says that

wrought erected ashore. As an article of food it by want of thought as much as want of for heart had he suizl by determined persist-

pean,"

On the foregoing matters The Vaga bond" saya!... -“3. I did make inquiries; and four the

Taeping correct'

TAUS

in even more profitable than parlato fa, ent "thought" he would have been nearor I fear that any European" appealed to Sydney it brings from £80 to £140th mark. I think if the pithy settenco

and in Canton and Shanghai is sold at

·

if he confirmed these statements, price which insures an early fort

"forting to Be have conspired to deceive.

1: Ward did not ses the rebellion succesful spoculitor. All over the Pacific are putri fisheries; most of the reefs presa. Ho collected the original mate

the tly trepang every little riale of what became under Colonel like island the cheristal coconut. the "Ever-vistorious Army," but it did it. The pearl shells of and Polynesia are,

in are the dung his lifetica. When licensor

those of Torres however, less estecated

fow

God shall eurse thes; O theu false tongue" was printed in illuminated letters and lung in overy Indios' recuplion room and radoir, it night, perhaps, cause som Lo pausu ere they ruined or detracted from their sisters fair fame for their own self- crjoyment. I-the-talking-of our neigh (Bargerine) was dismissed, the force was Strait, orovin of Western Austratin, may still worse when practised by moon, and

bors behind their hacka is bad in. for a time commanded by Captain land.

Early in 1863 the main body sustaineding to the fact that, until recently, they, i

I regret to say the superior sex are not

*

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For further particulars, apply at the Company's Olive.

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Agent, Hongkong, December 6, 1981... do19

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Ungher, Jupiter Walters, W. Le Webster, Miss

Townsend, A. M, 1-

under a disastrous defeat at Taits were prepared for the murket in leshove indulging in the pernicious habit, STEAM TO YOKOHAMA VIA KOBE case may be, but euch papers or packets or correspondence, is invariably delivered at Hong Singl losing many then and song guns, while an approved fashion. But the shells of the

Oceanic dyster are richer in pearls. Quon though, happily, the habit Is as exceptional other part of the force was defented clac. Pomare. Sf Tahiti, batt one for which she them as it is common with women FTHE'S, S. TAKASAGO MARU, CAPtaxcept hona fido Supplements. Printed Lars, Dividend Warranta, Invitations, Carts, Jurgensen; Caill where (Fushan). Then General Staveley refused £1200, and the Goduffrays, Those Laani ther; je this difference, generally, 60- YOUNG, dua here on or about the matter way, however, be enclosed, if the c., all of the same weight, to addresses in Kemp Mr1 Karler, Peliparpe 1

miused

Colonel (then Captain and Brevet. Major)

Gordon at the Ecad of the force, and then commenced its career of triumph.

2. Your correspondent's informant spoke of the Taeping Wang "if there were

slook

"South Son Kings,"

fall so lately while

sly tech hun, mononly relate the anodoto, the crannertial world of Germany, whi

How 10th: Instant, will be despatched as above whole be paid st Book Batu. Princes Cut- Women persity the story...

rent may be paid either as Newspapers or sometimes ship to Europe at one time any are the sermes and broken lives that on FRIDAY, the 23rd December, at Noor £30,000 or £7,000 worth of Polynesian-pearle, 1 could relate, within my experience, that Cargo received on beard and Parcels at

Books. of them handsome as the inous this reprehensible

Ictico has caused. pitiful;

No. Bill of Lading signed under $2

Commercial Papers signify, such papers cried to a man of austere garacter bat a charming young woman was engaged the

as, though Written by Hand, do not boar: All Claims must be settled on board the character of an actual or personal corre ess sue people would call it, consisted in will not be recognized.

Hic, &c. The charge on them is the same as for books, but, whatever the weight of packet containing any partially written paper, it will not be charged less than To Kose.....

only one such person, and it might be a Tumutus gems which formed the neckled One case i remeniber timt was quite pits the Office up to 10 àm. of day of sailing

that Hung-sew-tauen, the heavenlyft

of the Eragrosa Engário. Several thousand roh, tho chiuf parson among

the rebuilt

sons | tons of slicils are annually exported from (acmotimes, indeed, called par recellence the th

the Sammoan Grong, and

were

A

Freight.

Insolvin, gr. L. 1

Chine, may deliver them to the Post Lanen, Monar, 1 Hongkong, Bangkok, or the Ports of Kofoor, F. 3. A. 1; Office unstamped, the postage being then charged to the sender's account. Each batch must consist of at least ten

Willie, Toy, E.RE Wong Yogovi b

Zonthel The Lord) Zealand/ H. 5 1-dua

4 Boxholders may also send Patterns For Merchant Ships to the same places in the same way, En closed if the nature of the contents be first Adam m exhibited or stated to the Postmaster impro

by Lote wig von § vá General, as he may consider necessary, and Ambassador1 rag. 6. 2.Incy Approved

him. Printed Cimlara uusy Annie R. Smith 1 be inserted in such Pattern Packete

by

Teoping Wang) was in Soo-chow. But he the peurs tids are catitasted to dioving pheitly what was told him. was far way at Nankin, and never saw Soos fast, though they are of somali ness whose weakness, or great- bofore delivery is taken, otherwise they spondence, such as invoices, deeds, copied volopes containing Patterns may be wholly adama Lorenz

"WARE" chow.

merely meas princeanu, tie poce 190 wirt annually. The crual person, with what desire was never i

apply over and there between

20 and 30 well under or seal pearls are sold at Tahiti for discovered, said to this man-Soyouareon. known Taeping Wangaat various epochs of the about GOS.

about G0s. the ill, log

export to Chim,gaged to be married to Miss Sand So; de rebellion, Several were killed at So-chow,

wheroi

them into you know that she drinks?" Without hero rich

wait voluptuaries pornd So for was Gordon from being an accom-electuaries, or perhaps drink them in wine. wg to enquire as to the truth of the assor plice in the atrocious slaughter of the Wangs

trade and industry cuntures its tion, the gentleman at once broke off the A., a prona, Bensitive accepted her fate and refrained from

day

Lihung-stising was too powerful"--that it

Waa

"Every lity in we were who wilk tement. Miss A.,

Janrtens,

it.

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esther next day, noxt nur next coral reefs, and green with the feathers trace the report to its Boureo; the perseve-

neither

month

suçl

longth hit

Страв

40 consented to serve where eich comber" is so rapidly becom: fronted with the fact, the dastard, a man.

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other

never

་་

have

"

she drinks watur." A

last found a remedy. He obtained “a posi Gospel. For it not unfreating the to this wretched specimen of humanity,

Gordon would act.

.

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3.canta each. 10 cents.

i-James Wett

on their surrender to Ti-hung-chang (noten

-hung-chow) that Gordon wna ignorant of The gold

rigger is the rean the fact until the following morning. Sa

the reault of placers and for an explanation. By-and-bye she will be transhipped to the Shanghai Mail mercial Papers to Foreign Post Offices is roofs, thevoyagour of beaver Felts and indignant was

mant was he when it became known to

bench comber of tropany found herself looked upon coldly by all her Steamer at Kobe. the him, that the Li-hi-chang kept ont

wary

For further Particulars, apply at the and pear) shelle. His work is

is mong roofs friends and gradually cut by society, which, of his way, bo untrue is it that the next over which the shiny slugs crawl, of fairy of course, had spread and embellished the Company's OPrices, PRATA CENTRAL, Wast

Gordon's Scotch caution prevailed, or

H. J. H. TRIPP, are just end feat outsig i, went fated to walls, counteract that the art, briver and more Corner Lottinger Street.

sunny istes, walled round by rest, determined to

Agent. followed up the clue until she at which bears the oil-yielding copra,

Hongkong, December 13, 1881 could he tolerated, Not

upon the originator. When the English Minister at Pokin

his origin is English authorities, but the Chinese funcing a variety of his gems, that

wh WILS. It is ovident somewhat difficult to trace..

disgrace to manhood, acknow- ticnaries, strove in vain to induce him to that he has been a sailor; oflrwing he ledged he had uttered the words, but she take the Gold. Favours of distinction and

drinks, excusing found his way to these

bimself under the plea ofera pecuniary reward work declized would He informed the Emperor that owing to gut spots; yet in dress and manners of its heing a jako: he fund meant

-tirard

morals ho is a savage. But the man bu the circumstances which decurred since this hot without a kind of courage, al

buld have done that man go to the

good com

though capture of

of Bon-chow he was able to reotive romanes of which he is al maconscious it would have haon of little any mark of His Majesty the Emperor's re-11e hates missionaries, though in his own and the cruel treatment. Somewhat akin own unfortunate girl, who sickened nod died cognition,"

Way he is a kind of missionary une

unrequired ud The English Minister, Sir F. Bruce, at by any Society for

who was the source of the mischief related Tuppens.] wi tive promise in writing that in cases of that the pioneer who flatters himself that he above, is the purrayar of dirt who has just capitulation where Gordon was present is the first to carry civilisation to some published in one of the Society nothing was to be done without his consent," and he informed Prince Kung that it was lively oceanic island funds that he has been wretched periodical of the Beal and the **queer story! pon the faith of this engagement" that anticipated by the tach comber, who has devil, what it descess of the accommodatedl Jimself to the ways of

the reflecting apa

Royal

GULF place, and preaches, fights, monda, markets, Family; who, whatever her faults, is known Bir F. Bruce informed the Secretary of and trades trepang as if to the manner that the tale alluded to has the remoteat

born to be a good, true, earnest Christian woman Stato (12th July, 1864) that Gordon's The bench comber has invariably a history foundation in fact no ous with a clear head "disinterestedness has olevated our national cften stranger than invention, but rarely and kind wat boloves That the whole character in the eyes of the Chinese. Not plen only has he refused any, peonniary reward, sme he was baptised by, and, as a rule brought ap with some object, only known pleasant to hear. He seldom signs the

affair is a wretched falsehood is apparent, but he has spent more than his pay in con prefers not to make the acquaintanca tributing to the comfort of the cfticors who the officers of war ships. Like his fellow to the fertile, scheming brain of the writer. sarved under him, and in assaging the savages, he has an outrigger canos, and it has been suggested Lant some gentleman from this for BOMBAY, on MONDAY, distress of the starving population, whom

collects sea slugs and pearl shells, as he should talks the matter up and inflict a Dvilloi

the 26th December, 1881, at 4 p.m.

Postage to Non-Union Countries, he relieved from the

Cargo will be received BOTS. Indeed, the font of their opprefers about from "island unto island ut horsewhipping on the author of the

Hawaiian Kingdom - that impelled him

of Soo- the gateways of the day." He is in no

kurzy, and thow was one of the purest humanity. He bargain with any passing trailer. Yes we

good ever, very well afford to treat the matter and hence can usually drive

Letters, Parcels and Specie (Gold) at the Office with disdain. But is it not a shame that until 10 am. on the day of sailing.

Eugistration, to save the districts that had been sought

auch writings should be permitted The A barrel

Silk and Valuables for Europe will be Newspapers, repovered from repetition of the misery fear that his best days are over.

answer to that question, alas lies in the transhipped at Point de Galle; but Tea and Books & Patterns 'à of Ben slegs can no longer be bought for entailed upon them by this eruel civil war.

plug of

people to purchase of tobacco, and though the adventurer fact that were there n

West Indies (Non Union), Bolivia, tered These being the authentic facts respect ena still make fine profits, he will find it such productions as these sixpenny scandals General Cargo at Bombay, arriving one

week later than by the direct route vid Costa Rica, Nicaragua,

Letters, suggested the propriety of forming an

80 further Particulars, regarding Registration, For anti-scandal league for the exposure and FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply to the Newspapere,

of this crying sin of both men PESINSULAR ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA Books & Patterns, women. If only some few

would

ould TION COMPANY's Office, Hongkong The only fear in that the trade will be over, sternly set their faces against its encourage The Contents and Values of Packages are

and

thing. Good pearl fishery ment, it would be a

required to be declared prior to shipment. examples, persistently carried out, are never Shippers are particularly requested to gistration, 10; Newspapers, 2; Books and 1. No Letter or Packot, whether by be

Books pany's Black Bills of Lading.

gistration, 10; Newspapers, 2; Books and for Portage if it contains gold or silver Passengers to England are now Booked Patterns, 2

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10; Nevepapers, 5 Books and Patterns, 2 Thit Regulation prohibits the sending Button Her sion, mit Lordon, Letters, 25 Registration, Customs duties

Blen Pablique. Boletim Omanik of Patterns of duciable articles, unless the quantity sont be go mall as to make the Cercle des Anciens Bladiants.

Comtesse Jeunde, ampio of no valup,

to resume operations after the

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nous libel. Her Royal Highness can, howlit a.m. on the day of sailing.

On board until

not

ing Colonel Gordon's conduct at Soochow, difficult to carry at the Godeftoys mazimt could not be published. I have often Galle.

that and will she of which

will of cent percent. The прос, вла

ocrrespondent was imposed a

insert this explanation. As The

Hawaiian seersjon

in, in the Pacific as elsewhere,

and

Australasian has a wide circulation not foretoldown the inequalities of life.?

paly within, but beyond Vistaris, it is only

bana-I am, &,, - G. W. RUDER,

Comun, Papers,

2 cents each

cents per 2 oz. There is no charge on redirected corze epondence within the Postal Union.

.10

None,

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5

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by Private Ship, not by Contract Mail

Facket. The Post Office reserves the right

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and of delaying delivery in case the number

DETAINED

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It in wesemary that the following rules be strictly observed, y

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Oct. 17.

THE FEARL FISHERIES OF QUEENSLAND,

exhausted. It behoven the ments of Fiji and Queensland to at once

not only for the pre-frotting and fuming over fads and trying to franie regulations, servation of these sources of public wealth, reform our neighbours' ways, we were to but for the naturalisation of the more

What Carlyle called our soft valuable pearl oyster of Ceylon and Pability" in endeavouring to cure unr neighbours as well as ourselves of the habit in the warn sens of the South..

of gossiping, we should save not only pair to others but ourselves from many a keen regret Lady Correspondent of Calcutta Englishman.

AN Ohio woman owed her hired man 320. She married him to square the account, and then for $60 secured a divorce, saving $260 by the two transactions. And yet Boston people say women are poor financiers.

Japan

NAMES OF VILLAGES &c, IN OR NEAR HONGKONG. (Corrected Spelling.)

(From the Loudon Standard) Australia has been so long associated exclusively with outton and, wool, corn, gold, and a potout wine to which the British palate has not yet got educated, that Lieu tenant De Hughton's report, which was published yestorting, on the pearl-fisheries of Queensland will, for many of his country. ACCORDING to the Atheneum the

asa would seem to have little to learn in A-kung Ngam. all the charms of novelty. mer, possesers all Though neither in size nor in water can the the matter. of literary piracy

ey. The rights Ap-li Chau. pearls of Torres Strait and West Australia of authors in China are strictly

guarded,

Cheung shan Hom. Compare with those of Ceylon, Panama, the not by any special enactment, but simply

the Persian Gulf, yet they West Indies, or

the operation

of the ordinary law Chung Bon of Chung Wan the work of man's brain being re- Fo-pang... ahells within which they grow are much larceny. more valuable to the cabinet and button garded in the same manner as his other Ha-wan. makers than those which yield the possessions. The Japanese, however, are

Bnor gems of the Orient, and Tropical America: in the habit of reprinting important Chineseung-ko

Indeed, the pearl fisheries of

JAW of

those of the narrow; strait), and works, and not only selling them in Japan, Hokkaui,

York

Cape beiwean

Тваі

Wan

but exporting them to Chims, where they Hok-teui and New Guinss, are for the most is wld at a much lower price than the Hok-in,

Ideas for the sale of the pearls originals. An instance is mentioned of an Hok-ün Kok. than for the

Hung-heung Lo. These “fishuries” have been worked for

Hung-hom

Wan

part purmed of the pearl oyster. artist and poet at Ning-pa, who has publish

ed several

veral hundred of his choicest pictures number of years but had not the necessity accompanied by appropriate stanzas. These Kai-long of protecting the British subjects settled on were the work of many years, and their Ka-52 Wall them compelled us, less than two years ago, ale the chief ware of the author's subais- probable.

that the

Shelt

to annex the islands in Torres Strait, it is tence. But they have been: regrated

e pearl divers of the south Japan; and the pirated copies are now. sold Kung Chung. would have continued to attract little Chins at half the original cost in this Kung Kok notice.

however, assuming case it would seem that the Chinese author

Lap-sap. Wars:: considerable

Elaven

van firms,

ities can at once put a stop to the sale in Li-ü Mun. employing nearly 100 boats, are engaged in their own country by seizing all the copies Ma-tay Chung and the estimated value of the shells of the Japanese edition at their castom Martau Kok exported is not down at from £60,000 to houma Works of the chief European Ma-tau Teiln £70,000. The divers were at one time writers are e extensively translated or adapted

and many of

As my and Mest Spencer's desays are reprinted

thepaans who had begaardskyped in:

black bird" traders, bat at present

Mong-kok

they constat principally of Sandwich Is: English in Tolo, and offered for sale by Ngan Ping landers, Now Hebrideans, Maoria, Malays, the booksellers there. The loss to the gang-shin Chau. Rnd Australia

writers is small, b aborigines, directed by

but it is to be hoped that Pak

Pakalui Wang which has Por-fu Lath hito overseers. The work is hard, but the Japanese Government, whi

profits are high. The divers are already seized and adopted so much that in Sai-wan Tan pad flow wagos, but they hare a per- beat in European legislation, will pass a Bai Ying pan, dosage on the cargo, and in most cases law rendering literary piracy an offence ZODELYS As a perquisite any small pearla The chief objection is said to bo that pro which the oysters may contam. These are, taction of this kind would place most books

zule, of little valus, the huge shell beyond the pocket of native rendera.

San Taur, Shai-wan. "Shai-tsai Po.

Sham-shui Po Shau-ki Wan. Shak-u. Shok

Tong. Shek-tong ·Teni.·

Wan Shoung Shuiting Wan So-kon Fo Tai-kok Tami

Ho Kung

Tai-ping Shan. Tai-shek Kok. Taitam.

Tai-tam Tuk Tai-wan Tai-wong Kung. Tang-lung Chau Taat Tai-mui. Teim-zha Teui. Tso pai Isa To-kwa Wen. To-ti Wa

gowa (Hospital) Tungdo

Wang-kok Trun Wing-ma Kok Wong noi Chung. Yau-ins Ti. N.B. Documents should not be dated Year of Kings which is the style of HM the Emperor of China, and is of

in a British Colony

„course ina

A. MOTVER, Superintendent. Hongkong, December 14, 1881.

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portation

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