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defiance, for

210

ave, un

unless

it is the moutance Offices,

control

ber

in

Then it

any way. may

be said.

"Wies not the Chinese Authori.

"ties help by forbidding their subjects to

overcrowd the steame

out of regard for their country_

"man's liver.

to

I have frica

move them but without

result. I have not

ental apathy,

aw

her

start, myself,

how she ever.

made the

awa

voyage

of seventy miles in safety in to me. Sad there

mystery

been, for any reason, a rush

of passengers to

one side, she

must inevitably have capsized. The "Sing Ching" belonging the Kaiping

20

many

only

Ari.

ale

as I said be.

fore, to contend with, but

these Chinese Officials are some of the worst offenders them-

selves

air

crowding.

Chi, a

the

matter of over. The steamer Kwang little boat of under is the property of Shing Faotai, lake of Chefoo,

200 tons.

of Fientsin. In March

last she left for Port Stathur

on board.

with 800 passengers

Coal Coy, in which

Chinese Mandarins.

pecuniarily interested, -

made the same

ad

dangerously

almas

voyage

lader. Au re

ceipt of your despatch under acknowledgment

cated the contents of it to Li, our present Favtai. This is his reply:-

I have already

written to the Japanese and

"Russian Consuls to

" to (the Masters and

orders

give

Agent of)

"their steamers to consider the

" number of passengers

that the

"Tonnage