Crew sitting
Portrait of
in au
a Mandarin.
arm chair.
Wednesday
7th Ah 6.30. Am
we proceeded to the beach to
hire
a boat to take us on
board the "Meile" steamer
announced
by
hand bill to
leave Macao for Cauton at
7 A. M; on our arrival alongside
we found
she was not going to leave as some part of her Machinery had broken. so
of course we returned on shore;
the next morning returned to Cauton bringing
the two Petitioners with me.
The Barracoons
were
known
by the
names given by the
Petitioners, all of them
known by
the Chinese names
only the Portuguese know them by any
other name.
while walking in the street I saw the Portuguese
this
day
marching eighteen coolies down to the Depôts.
The numbers stated in
my
report as opposite to each barracoon
may
not be
exactly correct, but they
are