معد
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existing regulations here
are a
bit better
• paper than those at Macao, and
I have demonstrated to Her Majesty's
yet
Vice to
Goverment that repels equipped for the Whitting
piratical purpose of Midnapping and
violently seizing
men as
captives
were
of State No 318 of 15th July 1867.
Macao
regularly sent along the boust from Masus.
and that the crews
of those repels
did
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transactions of that kind at Macao because the officials, whose duty it was to
prevent such malpractices,
had
а
were
corrupt and direct pecuniary interest in maintaining
be 164" ! the most execrable abruses, though I am
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glad to report that at last
an
honest
CP
attempt seems likely to be made to terminate
those abuses.
habitually
and as
a
inhabitants of villages
system seize by force
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On the other hand,
even
if the
aud
in
other refaels, all of whom,
papengers
as a
rule,
were
regularly paped through all the safeguards of the Moação Goremment Regulations and shipped as willing limigrants to the Havannah. te. It
there
does not appear that for years
ever was
amy difficulty in camping though
means Coolies
collecting agents did occasionally run the risk of sltaining by improper to be shipped from this Port, it is evident that the final shipment of such persons
against their will was rendered
es
exchremely
improbable by the frequent visits of the
Harbor Master to them and the
асстро
easy
to the Police which all such Coolies