CO129-150 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [5-6] — Page 91

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2.

3.

¡

Macao

very

Emigration from praminently before the Public.

Since then another startly

this

event in camection with th

the

Emigration has occurred, viz : destruction by fire at but short

distance from Wongting of a vefeel called the "Dar Juan, which had 650 Emigrants embarked at

Macao and.

AAI AA

bound for Pers.

The vefel appears to have

vepel...appears

3.

sailed

ar

the

evening of the 4

th of

May, and to have been arrested

ott

her

vajago

about mid-day

the 6th when fire

|

issuing,

as

was

av

first observed

the Immigrants assert, from

the Captain's Cabin and passing

89

from thence downwards to she Main deck, and as the crew maintain,

from the main -dock to the Cabin, when it passed to the

rigging and through the ship. It has not been possible to ascertain

with any degree of certainty either

where

کاری

in what

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e

through

whow the fire originated, the

crew

generally maintaining that it was carved intentionally by of the Coolies at the after part of

the

some

main-deck who resisted every

attempt to

get it under and murdered two men who interposed, whilst the Imigrants allege that

the fire

Alas

purely accidental and

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