Taiping’s Unique Cargo
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"Coffin Ship”
From Our Own Correspondent.
Thursday Is., Sept. 10.
ON her last trip north the Taiping deviated from her regular course to call in at Darwin, in order to pick up passengers, and also to col lect the remains of 200 or so Chinese, who had died in the Northern Terri tory at different times, and whose friends wanted the remains taken back to China for a second interment.
The coffins were of all shapes and sizes, ranging from kerosene boxes and tins to beer cases.
The “coffin ship” unloaded her gruesome cargo at Hongkong.