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people whom they had rived to

convey

them to different points, or with such

(oncefly children)

as

WEAC

violently

siized

on

the highways

or carried off

in the

grasp

by slukta at night - Onco

of

the Foreigners, they

were driven into

the hold of the lovena, to be transferred

a

to the ship when

sufficient number

had

been obtained White

on

board

in the hol

the lovehas, insufficient food and

constant confinement

cried

the fate of the kidna

apped, whose

brutality that one of the four unable

to bear his

agony,

threw himself overtrend

when the punishment ceased, and was

drowned.

| Wounds

Life

Salt was rubbed into the

of the

emaining three.

was unsparingly secrefiend Numbers of the coolies speak of men,

their companions at the time when

they..

were carried off, who drowned

themselves to

escape

the

grasp of

the Kidnappers. One

his mother was

MAN

asserts that

thrown from the

deck of the lorcha into the scal, as

and entreaties

with flows. An

were punished

On one occasion the~~

"

she was endeavoring to

rescue her son.

un fortu.

ruffian Manoel caused

nates to be tied up a

four of these

Waother saw his brother drowned as

and

lashed with rattans with such

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he himself

wad

carried off

At length the "Ville d'

a' Agen"

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