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3.
were inveigled
mn
board
a
Loreha (No15)
getting
онт
by various exenses ; that on
board they were.
put
below and afterwards
transhipped to the "Ville d'ager lying
in the Bay Can - cha wan.
-
A Mr. Pastow who acts the.
part of agent
avows in the most positive
manner that the Coolies were not - Kidnapped; but although the statements of the Chinese must be received with great cantion, still the men's stories
Nature
though all of a different agree so nearly in substance as to lead to the
belief that there had originally been taken without their free emsent, but-
after getting
their case
to the ship and seeing hopeless, they appear to
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have resigned themselves to their fate
and signed the Contracts willingly
enough; some stated that these Contracts had been explained to them, others again said no; they denied having
received
money but admitted that the men-
were
e paid
who took them to the Sorcha various sums; the Agent informed as
that they had all of them received but had spent it,-
Money
spent it, I am
inclined to disbelieve this statement
of Mr. Pastais as
they were all
apparently without a cash and my Knowledge
that
our own West Indian
Imigrants reserve their money for gambling purposes.
Two of the Coolies had been