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Barracoons he would deliver them into my charge. He stated in reply that he could not do so, unless some guarantee was given that the Barracoon keepers should be repaid the sums they had advanced for the purchase of the men and other expenses they had incurred on their account.
On that evening (Wednesday) the Governor of Macao himself returned to the settlement, and it was arranged between the Procurador and myself that we should wait upon His Excellency the next morning and take His instructions in the matter. On the following morning (Thursday) in an interview with the Governor, He stated it as his opinion that in justice to the Barracoon keepers he could not order the delivery of the five men to me without their expenses being refunded, the more so as the Barracoon keepers had