IT CANNOT BE TRUE!
Thafe the captain of the Penguin treated the with sitch levity As is' recorded of him in the HeraM, stwh*_* joking about fumigating the cocoanirie or bananas. ; No man- with a ,heart in lis body emildhmgh. when thinking of the grisly j&ssefcger he may have bWught- with \hiin_ An _>____. 7. e[ne .tion thatfprcea itself 'upon us is, as : to wlteliher, knowing' that he came from infected 3>o»t3» ife would hot have been wiser for the captala to.ha^ taken the responsibility of waiting VRw a abort time, and communicating with the VHjßalfch Officer, ' '' bef orb landings ' his • p&Sßengera. : r W^'kaa\r i.ightw'ell that every captain is at._rioi.i3 delaying his ship, but, by not doing so Misuse a case, he h Sis' missed 'a ' grand chance of, earning the praise and gratitude of 'the- whole colda'y. Ai it happens, if he had only waited one start hahr hour, he- would have been relieved frbiii m responsibility by the arrival of Dr. 73?hiisb_i*i Supposing "the declaration that Eiji ~*ria MeetoH had notjMfrived^ and Dr. Philson %&& been- called in by the captain, the delay woulct hava. been bnt very trifling ; «nd, no matter •what happened afterw&rds; he would have felt .©asp ih.'.'his 'mmd, which we fancy he would liartUy fttrnovr, should we' become infected. ' li f : 'A'"^-"" ; - ('■ '-{" '"'■■ '• ■
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Observer, Volume 6, Issue 149, 21 July 1883, Page 4
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