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16.

25.

None of the Crew speak Chinese language. There

the

are two

interpreters; youths who speak with tolerable fluency; but one only of them is able to speak the dialect

this part of the province, which is the language familiar to most

the Coolies. The other

F

speaks

the

Amoy dialect; and is procceding to Demerara to be employed permanently there.

reasons

Mo

other

We can assign

the breaking out of the

for

disease on board the Ship, than the Crowded state of the vessel; the influence of a tainted atmosphere

caused by the assemblage

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in me

of

place, insufficiently ventilated,

large boty of

body of men,

a

many of

whom

the

persons of

were in aLL

uncleanly etate; the Corlies being allowed to remain night and day in the between dicks, thus impeding the exits of foul and

the admission

of pure air.

something may be duc also to

the low and aquish

the change from the low and localities in which

of the

many of

chinese have been accustomed to

reside. Fr Barton informs

Les

that it is not an uncommon

occurrence

for Ships leaving

Whampoa to have their Crews

i