explaining
the system of getting Coolies which is too frequently adopted at Macao, a statement Enclosure tit
"Daily Press "f
27 June, 1867.
as to some Annamites kidnapped and confined in the Barraccons at Macao, which is entitled to unusual credit - as it is vouched
in part by the testimony of a
French Missionary resident at Thathang in Cochin-China from whence a fleet with treasure and tribute to Annam
was dispatched last February. That fleet
was attacked by Cantonese Pirates in sight of Father Perriere; the vessels taken and robbed and a number
of Annamites carried off - and subsequently transferred to two Macao Lorches who carried them to Macao, where some
were put in the Barraccons, and others shipped as Emigrants for the Savannah.
The detail of the cruelties
practised
on these unfortunate
Annamite Coolies tallies exactly with those reported
as usual in the
case of other refractory Emigrants, but are more important being vouched by the credit of the Reverend Father Rondina, head of the College of St Joseph