On this day, the Adelaide Times reported on the death of Captain Corigalton, “a veteran of the Bengal steam service, who had been many years in the Straits, with every nook and corner of which he was familiar.

“He was an excellent officer who had rendered in his day much good service to the State against pirates, and in surveying various parts of the Straits. He refused promotion some six years ago, preferring to remain in his little steamer the Hooghly… and among a people whom he knew so well as he did the Malays, to take the charge of a larger vessel on higher pay. He was well known to the communities, of Piuang and Singapore….”

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