testimony. I therefore visited the Gad stirs morning accompanied by Captain Albuquerque and the Acting Colonial Secretary, and having finished the former with a copy of the enclosed depositions the Annamites there repeated the statements previously made before me as to having been starved and beaten to induce them to sign the Contracts.
As Captain Albuquerque must have been convinced of his inability to shake their testimony and of its evident truth, I can only hope he may make a suitable representation to the Governor of Macao. I infer from what passed that the Authorities at Macao are in reality afraid to interfere with the operations of the Coolie Brokers, a class whose vengeance they deem it dangerous to provoke.
Under the circumstances, the statements of the Annamites are important and interesting as being personally authenticated by me on inquiry, and by the examination of a direct representative of the Governor of Macao, who, however, is, as I understand, preparing a very different report on the