CO129-150 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [5-6] — Page 92

4.

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Maas

first

discovered

on the

In favor of the

4.

by the

crew is

upper

version

deck.

given

the fort that they

were at full liberty

AU MAC!

ew

deck and

well able not only to ascertain from whence the fire proceeded but also to watch its progres, whilst with exeception of one who a Privener in chains at the fore part of the ship, the Emigrants

giving evidence

vvas

were

huddled

clovely together at the fore hatch

trampling

only in

them

a.....

gaver from

-ancher and intent

forcing the barrier which

a horrid

chance of escape

fale. That

any

crushed to dearh under

No 1 to 4.

the feet of those who succeeded

90

ded in

}

little

very

foreing the hatch, there is doubt, but of the 650 embarked at

Macao upwards of 500 sent were

ev

burnt which strey

suffocated on the deck to

w eve

from which egres

iron barriers!

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I enclose

for

onfined, and

doed ly

Avas

the

information

of You Lordship copies of the

evidence takiew by the Police Magistrates from 44 of the 50 Emigrants who

wvere

fortrenate enough

to reach this Colony, by which the

the

system adopted at Macad for collection and embarkation of Coolion

and the

manner in which

in which they

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