CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8] — Page 20

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Leroy engagements to find passages

are

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driven to the utmost straits,

that huropean Ships condemned

years ago

tre

as

unfit to carry Cargo.

readily purchased at enormously high prices auch fitted out for passengers; that of those already purchased only one can be termed a sound wholesome Ship; that

ne Ship of 850 Tow was sold for

$85,000

Me

another

of 337 for $33.000,

of 140 Tow for $15,000, me of 179 Tous for $30,000, and four or five thers at prices equally extravagant.

3.

Added to this in two instances

the marter of the Versch after

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of

taking on board a member

that

passengers for in creere which is either legal or safe, fearing

number of them

وفا

the

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eniqueness,

has forced

on shore at the

passage

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"

moment of sailing when the

broker having absconded they looked

in rain

a return of their

Money In the ense

or even

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this cruelty was

of their paccage

for food and shelter._ the "Shamrock bris,

practised at Siugaine where the vessel touched on her way

to the Australian Colonies. The vessel

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has been wrecked on the Madjierima klands, involving great love of life, aurther, a Dutch Ship, has put into Singapoe leaky; and it is much