the obstacles arise pom the British functionaries at the Port of embarkete and he adds there seems to be no
doubt on this point": "
I beg to assume your
Lordship that our Lousada is
wholly miserformed, and that
there never has been any-the
всексену slightest (stacle - imposed by British migration agents to the legal export of women, the best Evidence of which is to be found
in the harbour master's retum
of Emmigrants from this Calong.
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it will be seen from
of
which I have the honor to enclose
a copy;
this document that many women
have lately left this olony -
Jew
or none however for a kleine
Colony
But I am bound to add
that there is every reason to fear
that
+ great abuses exist wherever
women are
conveyed away
from China . As far as Jean learn, the women armbarked
for California Lave been mortly furnished by procurepes from
the
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