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Norwina. is more remarkable the circumstances of the wreck of the Bokhara and the Normand on the Pescadores than the exceeding kindness with which the Chinese of all ranks from the poor fisherman on the islands to the Brigadier-General at the chief town, Makung, behaved to the survivors. The fishermen who came to Sand Island, the scene of the wreck of the Bokhara, looking for wreckage when the storm had somewhat abated, took the survivors to the neighbouring island, Pehoe, in their junks, where the twenty-three unfortunates were carefully attended to, as far as his means permitted, by a Chinese priest. From Pehoe they were forwarded on to the chief town, Makung, where the chief person of the town, the Brigadier-General or Chéntai, lavished on them a hospitality exceeding anything that would be done in similar circumstances in the west., He provided them with clothes, medicines, food, cigars, and champagne, and with money when the Thales came in to take them off. He sent to see that the dead bodies recovered from the wreck were decently buried, and warned the fishermen that they would be responsible for the salvage they collected. He treated the survivors, in their own words, as if they had been his own children, and his interpreter seconded him in all his kindly efforts.
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