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the fore hatch when I

heard a great entory of fire made

the cookies at the ofter part of

by

and I saw thick smoke

the vessel, and

coming

down the aft gratings, the

smoke had the odor of lar, and

suffocating. The fire

i vas

was

deck where the cookies

appeared to be on

not on the

but w

the

AA

es piper

deck

ev ere

at the of part, where the

Officers cabins and slove

room were

situated. I do not know what the

arew

did to

monl

of them

gratings

over

linguish the fire,

below;

the

iron

the hatches were locked

and the coolies collected

3-

vre ar

the