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"aptain Jennings at sea on July 2.1904 all right by 10 which had been surgested by one who knew the port (as Robertson and Jennings had not known being Western Ocean men). This is not evidence but I give it for hat it is worth for the discovery of this custom which I was told of as a quite disinterested shipmate, not on articles, and which confirmed my ex- perience gained on several previous visits to Shipping Master's Office when I was on articles as ship's surgeon. I may say I always received the courtesy a Portuguese or a Chinaan shers to a stranger. The Shipping Master is, I believe, a lacao man. It is his method, not himself, I feel should be suppressed, and I make my statement to support my idea that seamen on British ships will be benefited by a counsellor as suggested.
My offer to shew myself at your office was to let you judge whether I was a sensationalist or the accurate chance observer of inside methods in Shipping Offices to seamen.
Anything I can elucidate I will and ar
Faithfully Yours
(Signed) John H. Pugh,
M.R.C. S. Eng., L.S.A. Lond.,
B. A. Cantab.
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