CO129-165 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [10-12] — Page 468

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men were killed

Willed by luggaget.

being washed about the decks

jumped

and that two men

overboard.

As the passengers were not counted before leaving

Singapore, it is imposible to

say

with

couracy

was,

any degree

what the loss of life

but from my enquiries I am dispowed to thinse the

Mnale's statement is

a correct one.

the

A large portion of it

was lost.

papenger's luggage

This vefeel from her _._ preauliar construction having great length without proportionate

beam,

was

st able to live

but

just

out the storm. She

drawing.

ft. in 21.

ANHOS

of water and

appears to have been, in the

more

like

a

half tide

gale, ~ rock than

vessel conveying valuable lives and property.

Mad she encountered the centre

of a Typhoon, there can bes

little doubt but that she would

to the bottom.-

have

gove

Call

I beg leave also to case

attention to the British Steam ship 'Ulysses, Official number 63, 326, having left singapore

the 16th October with 316 Chinese death passengers. This

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