notorious Mandarin carrying on by those vessels, or of their equipment and ownership at Macao would in this part of the world be received with incredulity.
9. Governor Isidor's reply is written in English, and may be most truthfully described as "vox et praeterea nihil". I regarded it as simply screening under a cloud of words in decided intention to do nothing and in justice to Governor Isidor I must express my belief that even if he wished to suppress the worst features of the Macao Coolie traffic, which is very doubtful, he would probably find himself powerless to carry out such wish in the face of the antagonism offered by a Community, whose chief hope of making money arises now from that abominable traffic.
10. More recently (on the 10th April, 1857, [inclosure to Williams]) I had to request his intercession to recover a sum of Portuguese money ($83) paid to an official, as a bribe to release a young man, a resident of Hong Kong, who had been inveigled on board of a Portuguese vessel at Macao.
11½ April, 1857.
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p289.
10th June, 1867.