to the information they had previously given porn to the Superintendent ·
In the meantime the
Superintendench had been informed
that som
of "
the people already
on
"
board the Portland were detained
teris will. The
againet information
lane
was also conveyed
to the Emigration Officers. In conse=
nee the superintendent of Polica firch, and the Emigration
-qurnes
Micar later on the same day,
to the Thip exparately,
werk off th
apparculty without
any
arid
Commu=
_nication with each Meer, to
examine the people. To the Super- cintendent of Police all expressed thermselors satisfied
and willing
to proceed. to the Emigration Agent
some
of hesitation, exprepor
I the
the women, apten
Londo
14
a desire to go
theep were
the
home- but the surn said
withing to smigrate. The smigration
of
offices attributes the answer women to the natural appectionsion caused by the repeated inquiry addressed to them within a peco hours by tive Government officers. This might well be the case. The circum =
livo
stance was calculated to
create alarm in the minds of
ignorant and timis 5 The nexh
day
women
Met Sobschied
wrote to the Netherlands Consul to
say
that he had thrown up
the
(harter of the Portland". He said
that he had examined the
Emigrants and found almost