He was the pilot on the rive: steamer Shanghai which caught fi and was completely burnt out at 7 am. on Christmas morning, 1890. Nearly three hundred people lost their lives ard many froze to death on the banks of the river after getting out of the water. The same year he was in another fire.
This time fire broke out on the river steamer Tai Shing, the capi in and the second engineer, Captai Place and the Second Engineer Fern and about 120 Chinese perish-In 1893 he was master of
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