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f at the shipping office, and said that he had left Swatow a fortnight before, in a three-masted schooner, with five hundred and fifty other passengers. On the night of the 6th, he said, at the entrance to the Straits, barely thirty miles from Singapore, the vessel, going at full speed, dashed against the lighthouse rocks; a moment afterward she fell back, filled rapidly, and sank in deep water, with all hands on board. The man, who believed himself the only survivor, got hold of a piece of wgot hold of a piece of wood, on which he floated a whole day and night, when he was picked up by some fishermen. This story, so fearful in its details, was scarcely believed in at first; but fatal confirmation of it arrived a day afterward from the Dutch Resident at Rhio. One of the crew of the ship, a Swede, named Christensen, was picked up and brought ashore at Rhio, and his story was the same as the Chinaman's. The vessel was the Hamburg schooner Canton, bound from Swatow to Singapore."
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he body, presented himself at the shipping office, and said that he had left Swatow a fortnight before, in a three-masted schooner, with five hundred and fifty other passengers. On the night of the 6th, he said, at the entrance to the Straits, barely thirty miles from Singapore, the vessel, going at full speed, dashed against the lighthouse rocks; a moment afterward she fell back, filled rapidly, and sank in deep water, with all hands on board. The man, who believed himself the only survivor, got hold of a piece of wood, on which he floated a whole day and night, when he was picked up by some fishermen. This story, so fearful in its details, was scarcely believed in at first; but fatal confirmation of it arrived a day afterward from the Dutch Resident at Rhio. One of the crew of the ship, a Swede, named Christensen, was picked up and brought ashore at Rhio, and his story was the same as the Chinaman's. The vessel was the Hamburg schooner Canton, bound from Swatow to Singapore."
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Terrible Shipwreck. --The following is from the Straits Times, a Singapore paper: "On January 12, a Chinaman, much bruised about the body, presented himself at the shipping office, and said that he had left Swatow a fortnight before, in a three-masted schooner, with five hundred and fifty other passengers. On the night of the 6th, he said, at the entrance to the Straits, barely thirty miles from Singapore, the vessel, going at full speed, dashed against the lighthouse rocks; a moment afterward she fell back, filled rapidly, and sank in deep water, with all hands on board. The man, who believed himself the only survivor, got hold of a piece of wood, on which he floated a whole day and night, when he was picked up by some fishermen. This story, so fearful in its details, was scarcely believed in at first; but fatal confirmation of it arrived a day afterward from the Dutch Resident at Rhio. One of the crew of the ship, a Swede, named Christensen, was picked up and brought
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Terrible Shipwreck. --The following is from the Straits Times, a Singapore paper: "On January 12, a Chinaman, much bruised about the body, presented himself at the shipping office, and said that he had left Swatow a fortnight before, in a three-masted schooner, with five hundred and fifty other passengers. On the night of the 6th, he said, at the entrance to the Straits, barely thirty miles from Singapore, the vessel, going at full speed, dashed against the lighthouse rocks; a moment afterward she fell back, filled rapidly, and sank in deep water, with all hands on board. The man, who believed himself the only survivor, got hold of a piece of wood, on which he floated a whole day and night, when he was picked up by some fishermen. This story, so fearful in its details, was scarcely believed in at first; but fatal confirmation of it arrived a day afterward from the Dutch Resident at Rhio. One of the crew of the ship, a Swede, named Christensen, was picked up and brought