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enter a man for Huvanali. I don't tell him he will
ah to California because of the latter there is gold, the former there is not - This was said jocosely. He then asked if we had been to all the barracoons; had we had, and laaded perhaps it would give the Petitioners greater satisfaction were allowed to search the coolie ships in the harbor. The Magistrate asked me if they were informed there was not one Coolie in Harbor or anywhere afloat. That four Shiploads of Coolies had embarked within the last two months, viz "Flora Temple", "Norway", "Messurger" and "Kitty Simpson". The Magistrate then again drew my attention to the manner in which he entered coolies and pointed to five coolies in one corner and three in another who he used to enter, and had refused whom he intended to send away. He also told my interpreter,