Crew of Italian bark Providenza disappeared according to the Dutch newspaper Java-bode dated 5 October 1868

An item dated Hong Kong 18th September referred to tidings received from Macau that the Italian bark Providenza which left from there on 24th April towards Callao, Peru with 380 Chinese coolies on board arrived on 19th August in a very worse condition at Hakodadi, Japan. It was believed that she had undergone the same fate as the Theresa as her captain with wife and children and her crew disappeared and just 42 coolies remained.