CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3] — Page 20

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English and American steamers on the daily run, and for a limited time afterwards, armed men watched at the Hong Kong and Canton gangways and on board the river steamers. A similar precaution is not now done, except under rare and peculiar circumstances. Quarter Masters are unarmed, of course; a duty (or duty) is to look after the safety of the ship against piracy. But it is almost unnecessary to add that there is no analogy between the river steamers

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English and American steamers on the daily run, and for a limited time afterwards, armed men watched at the Hong Kong and Canton gangways and on board the river steamers. A similar precaution is not now done, except under rare and peculiar circumstances. Quarter Masters are unarmed, of course; a duty is to look after the safety of the ship against piracy. But it is almost unnecessary to add that there is no analogy between the river steamers

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English and American steamers on the daily run, and for a limited time afterwards, armed men watched at the Hong Kong and Canton gangways and on board the river steamers. A similar precaution is not now done, except under rare and peculiar circumstances. Quarter Masters are unarmed, of course; a duty (or duty) is to look after the safety of the ship against piracy. But it is almost unnecessary to add that there is no analogy between the river steamers ... has been removed as there is no clear indication of missing text in the original passage, and the last sentence seems incomplete. However, I've kept the original meaning and corrected the obvious errors. Here is the revised output in HTML format as requested: English and American steamers on the daily run, and for a limited time afterwards, armed men watched at the Hong Kong and Canton gangways and on board the river steamers. A similar precaution is not now done, except under rare and peculiar circumstances. Quarter Masters are unarmed, of course; a duty is to look after the safety of the ship against piracy. But it is almost unnecessary to add that there is no analogy between the river steamers
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19 English and American and for a limited Steamers on the daily period, afterwards armed line between Macas men watched at the HongKong and banten gangwangs and companions and in passages of of the river steamers. A only or four hours duration previously stated this similar precautions is not now done, except also adopted ( i. i to under rare and peculiar care those on board the Macas Coole ships) circumstances. Quarter Mastors unarmed are of dirty, who course) a du look after the safely of the ship against prox. But it is almost unnecessary to add that there is no analogy between the river steamers
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English and American and for a limited Steamers on the daily period, afterwards armed line between Macas men watched at the HongKong and banten gangwangs

and companions and in passages of of the river steamers. A only or four hours duration previously stated this similar precautions is not now done, except also adopted ( i. i to under rare and peculiar

care

those on board the Macas Coole ships)

circumstances. Quarter Mastors unarmed are

of

dirty, who

course) a du

look after the safely of

the ship against prox. But it is almost

unnecessary to add that there is no

analogy

between the river steamers

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