Red Riding Hood 1860

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News Item

The Ship Red Riding Hood from China came in yesterday with 311 immigrants. She took on 314 at Hong Kong but one woman died in child-birth, one man committed suicide by jumping overboard, and another fell overboard and was drowned, so that no deaths occurred on the passage from disease of any kind. . . . Twelve days after the Red Riding Hood sailed a conspiracy or disturbance of some kind broke out among the people, and two of the leaders were seized and put into chains. These proved to be one a pirate and the other a robber � something of the same, only the one was a sea and the other a land pirate. During the rest of the passage the greatest vigilance was exercised on board; the crew were kept on the alert, and the guns on the quarterdeck were trained forward. No further disposition, however, to turbulence or disorder was evinced, and during the latter end of the voyage the people were quiet and peaceable. [Royal Gazette, 10 Apr 1860]

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Immigrants

Note: Because of poor penmanship and deterioration of the historic documents, it was sometimes difficult to read the handwriting in the records and this has resulted in some duplication in the transcription of some passenger numbers as well as variations in spelling from what was originally inscribed. 

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