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Sunday service on board a Pacific Mail steamship

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Image depicts a man holding a book and apparently preaching to Chinese immigrants. "Our engraving on page 461 is from a sketch made by our artist on board one of the Pacific Mail steams ships that ply between San Francisco and the various ports of Japan. There is hardly a steam ship on any ocean with out a clergyman among her passengers, and he is generally invited to conduct service on Sundays..."--on verso, printed text from p. 462.
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Date
1877 June 16
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priJHK 00571
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