From tHe "Norti-Cutwa Datty News," or June 26, 1871
The "China Mail" gives the following report from Captain O'Flaherty of the Yottung:—There was a i Swatow yesterday that a steamer was on shore about 20 miles across the country from Swatow. I kept very close to the shore from Cape of Good Hope to Breaker Point, but could see nothing of her. The report was made by a Chinese who said that he saw her strike a rock, which he said is only a few miles from the shore with five to seven fathoms right round it. From the report. I concluded that she must have struck on either Perkins' Rock off Haimun Point, or on the Rock off Tangle Point. She was not on either of these rocks, when I passed last night. I could' not examine the coast any further, as it was then dark and blow-heavy sea. Thi before he started for Swatow,
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