" the disproportion between
" the European Residents and
" the Native population so
" "great, the controlling force
so small or
" the risk of
" infusing into an inext mass
"
" the spirit
and experience of
" a more lawless and daring
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race, so obvious and palpable -
• The Convicts in question
are
• stated to be principally Pirates,
"
i.e. Men familiar with
violence and bloodshed
" accustomed to
a
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wild and
hard life, proficient in the "arts of accomplished European
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" criminaldom, just the men in " short, whom it is difficult " to keep in custody or impossible " to trust when out of it. As Settlers or Ticket of leave men (and some such softening " of its rigours every system of
Transportation requires) they
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" would be the worst Colonists
" and the most dangerous
neighbours to any quiet and " orderly Chinese Settlement that " might hereafter be attempted " in Ceylon. If worked
as
" Prison laborers, they would
" require for themselves, and