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The next morning seeing a number of men let out to tin wash, and observing several foreigners looking after them: We discovered that we were in a Barracoon - Some Chinese told us that we should be taken before the authorities, and that they would reproach Shun Ahing for bringing us and many others into such a place, some of us began to cry : the foreigners seeing this beat some of us and told us to keep quiet. They told us also not to be afraid, that we should get good food where we were going to and $... dollars wages per month.
They enjoined us not to question them, but to nod our heads. They told us also that if we did so we should receive $... dollars each, but that if we refused to nod our heads we should be severely beaten. We were kept within the Barracoons for ... days, during which time Shun Ahing and the other Chinese of his party frequently came to the Barracoons, and ...