THE EXTINCTION OF THE BRITISH TAR
A correspondent of the "Liverpool Meroury, writing of two recent wrecks on the Wolßh coaat, givea BOine BUggeative figures. One of the loßfc vessels, the \ Malleny, had a crew consisting of four Welshmen, two Englishmen, one iVuuriIcan, one .Norwegian, one Italian, one Frenchman and two Hollanders, with a German mtte, n Eo'laudersailmaker, and a Hindoo cock. The Tevlotdnlo, caat oway In the same otorm, had three Swedish soamen, two Germans, one American, one Hollander, one Gvook, one Italian, one Dane, one Norw<>»ian, twoScolchinen, one Irishman, one Fug'tshman. The correspondent queries : k when wo fiad Dutchmen and Diogos everywhere ofloat, whether for a voyage to San Fianci- co or a journey lv our ferry-bouts it may be an intertsting question to ask : 'bow long will It take to make the British eeaman as extinct at the dodo ? '
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1546, 30 April 1887, Page 3
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142THE EXTINCTION OF THE BRITISH TAR Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1546, 30 April 1887, Page 3
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