CO129-150 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [5-6] — Page 105

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hatchways but could not fore their way out : I was

near

the fore

hatakway; in about half an hour

after the outbreak the lock of

the

fore

hatch

Avao

broken offi

how I do not know, and there

a rush to get up; many

was

had been

suffocated before that time ; Isucceded

in getting

on

deck and I then

Jaw

that the fire had reached the fore

mast which

was

burned. I saw.

the crew going away from the a vessel. in three of the Ships boals; I got over the bows of the rassel-

near

the chain cable and remained.

there until the fore mast foll overboard when I got

6

to the

: 'k 1,

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