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on board, and the passengers and crew of the Miranda were 

 allowed to cake their effects on shore. In the evening Cap- 

 tain Farrell and myself were invited to South Sydney, by the 

 passengers, to a grand supper in the Sydney Hotel. I need 

 not say that we accepted the invitation, and that it was a 

 happy time that we could well appreciate after being huddled 

 together as we had been for the last fifteen days. 



