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in Sydney would be so scouted by a British jury, that the chance 

 of punishing the men responsible for the infliction of three 

 months' misery upon two hundred helpless prisoners would be 

 so lightly weighed against the " inconvenience " of setting free 

 thirteen criminals, or that the nightmare voyage of the Chap- 

 man would be dismissed quietly as "so unfortunate a transac- 

 tion". 



