Ca., Dundee, writes a long letter to the Madras Mult from Colombo, containing details of interest, which he was able to write through his having been a passenger hongkong. describes the voyage as the aden yokohama, as far as far as that port, the incidents connected with the arrival of the various passengers, and how the usual groups on board ship were formed; and then proceeds The doctor of the ship as well as Mr. Miller, third officer, T had met on the Rosetta on our way up to Hongkong, and as bad luck would have it, they had asked and had been allowed to be transferred to the Aden from the Rosetta, so tht they might take'a trip home. The stewardess left the Aden at Kobe and exchanged with another very anxious to yet home. The Chief! Officer, Mr. Carden, was taking his first trip on the Aden to the' Japan and China seas. Captain Hill had been on the Aden, if I remember right, since 1894. A more gentlemanly and jovial Captain there could not be. He was all amiability to his passengers, and he soon became a great favourite with all of us, so that on leaving the steamer at Hongkong, where Mr. and Mrs. Keogh, and myself were to wait for the Coromandel take us on to Colombo, we were all very sorry at leaving him. We arrived in Hongkong on the 16th of April, and little we dreamt, when saying good-bye to the Aden and het officers, that the good boat and the majority of her crew wore starting for a trip from which only, unfortunately, there was to be no return for them!
On our expressing our wish to leave the den in order to catch the Coromandel and have a. quicker passage home, Captain Hill used to smile and say that he trusted his ship to make as good and as quick a passage as any other of the Company's steamers, and could he have done so, he would have prevailed on us to remain on board! I should say that amongst some of the officers there was a sort of apprehension lest something would befall the ship. Without referring' to the cause of his remark the chief engineer, Mr. Carmichael, said to me one night at dinner 'Let us hope that we won't go down this trip.' Captain Hill, also referring to a previous accident, made a similar remark, Was it a presentiment
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