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night as

well as

by day; so that the number

of passengers that might Pasily have been

Carried was uselessly restricted. Compelled

-

to provision rice and cabbage rating

Chinamen on a

their

them in

scale never

Enjoyed by lives except on gala days.

Bound to carry a suppily of medicines

XC. &C.

sufficient for a voyage of 200

instead of a dozen days;

Moreover

not one in a

passengers w? touch

Directed to carry

A n

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Wh medicines

hundred

of the

any

account.

interpreter when

I of the officers & crew spoke malay,

3

4

& some

the Chinese language, & a dozen

Chinamen belonging.

to the Vessel spoke

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the passengers had so far got over their ignorant fear of the man who cut off legs & scooped out eyes as to allow him to feel a pulse or look at a tongue.

What wonder that British Vessels unable to obtain a rate of passage monly

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that we make up for these losses sxpenses are gradually falling out of the trade wh will not support them, whilst their places

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may

are

taken by continental Vessels

run under the old custom.

It is a fact that an

English Vessel will

hardly be looked at

be looked at for a Charter, now,

for the British Possessions in the Straits a. Continental Vessel is obtainable & that

if

ordered to

in

rarely be

malay or English or both, Carry a Surgeon who could obtained, or if obtained, and be at the 2nd thie 10 days' passage before many of

of the

the

any

Case

the former could not

Expect above 2 the charter money

corresponding foreign

a

obtain.

that

readily

Vessel w?

time by

this

I have not sufficient

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