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The deterioration of British sailors must (the Liverpool Daily Post remarks) have reached a most humiliating point when an English captain is compelled in a police-court to avow a preference for foreigners on account of the drunkenness of English seamen. Such a confession was made in the police-court, lately in connection with a charge of refusing to do duty brought against ton Malay sailors, of the English vessel Queen. The men were shipped at Singapore, and were well-conducted daring the voyage; but when they arrived in Liverpool they were told by a fellow-countryman, who kept a boardinghouse, that now they were in England they need work no more; and, in their ignorance, they acted upon his advice. When asked by Mr Raflcs how it was that he had no British seamen on board the vessel, the captain explained that all the available English sailors at Singapore were in such a state of drnnkeness that he declined to take them, and said that although the prisoners were only poor sailors he preferred them to Englishmen.
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Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 423, 7 May 1879, Page 3
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176TOO TRUE. Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 423, 7 May 1879, Page 3
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