Ibey also to sicclose a paper with translation / drawn up by some of
the
men on board, and which Iwas requested
there with me - the men
to bring who smoke opium state that the -brokers promised that they should be supplied with Opium during the boyage,
but that they find it is not the case,
that
And the unless they
A
of
of
are
allowed it some
them will die. _
It appears also that the payment
the advance was Conducted Entirely by Chinese, and down in the between decks
of the ship, there being no European present to see the advance properly
paid
to each man, this accounts for the greater portion being kept by the brokers under the false plea of -deducting the Cost of the Clothing, and as a fee for themselves. of the number
of men questioned by me not one
I think could read the
agreement
they were made to sign, and
232
half
which
are
Consequently iquorant that the $10- advance is exclusive of the Clothing I beg to hand
one of
you a translation of
the Chinese agreements.
Love Copy,
I have ve
Signed / 20.R. Caldwell General Interpreter & beets. Superintendent of Police
Colonial Secretary.