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It may have been about two or three A M. when we left the vessel, the weather being rainy and dark so that we were at daybreak only 5 to 6 miles from the ship; towards 7 or 8 A.M. it was remarked by the carpenter and several of the crew, that the ship was pooping. I could not make the same observa- tion, but about ten minutes afterwards the vessel had disappeared and was not seen again, al- though two junks, which we saw a short dis tance from the ship, were discernible a long while afterwards.
On the 27th of May, towards sunset, the ex- hausted state of the crow, and the leaky condi- tion of the boat induced me to land on the East coast of Hainan, about 15 or 20 miles northward of False Tinboa, to repair the boat and let the men have some rest. My opinion that the coast was not inhabited was erroneous, for hardly were we landed when a great number of people surrounded us, and took from us every article in one possession, and it was only by marcbing close together that we could prevent them from tearing the clothes from our body. Afterwards an old man brought us to a village, where we were received kindly, and from there We marched on the next day about sixteen miles further southwar], to a town named Man-chow, where we were provided by the Mandarin with food, money, and a safeguard to conduct us to the next Mandarin, in a town thirty miles northward, and so, from one station to the other, during six days, we went, barefooted and without hats, through burning-hot sands and swamps.
On the 3rd of June, in the morning, we reached the capital, Kion-chew-fu, from whence the resident Mandarin sent us to Hoi-bau. In the latter place, Captain Velacroix Marsy, commanding the Chinese gun. bout Chun-hoi, provided us kindly with money, refreshments, and clothing, and also promised to takes us to Hongkong after his return from Lew-chew. On the 14th of June we were taken on board of the gunboat, and landed at Hong- kong on the 21st.
When marching along the East Coast of Hainan, I remarked in the wherry, by which we were taken across a creek, a piece of wood, apparently the steru of a ship's boat, with ane cut into it The first two letters I could not discern very well, but the rest were legible, and 1 made the whole ont to be- Chasey, Jersey.
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''ཎྞཾ, ཙཎཱནྟི , ཨཱམཱ, ཙཱར ར
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