sometimes
more than
W
scanty
not have earned; more
fire
pittance of from 1/2 to 2 dollars per
manh
canv
realize and has
in
Munn er eno
sistances realized by Emigration a handsome competence. I therefore, think it unfortunate that Sir Rutherford Alcock should have stated so
"
"
unequivocally to Prince that
"great enormities are
connected with
any existing Coolie Emigration under
'contracts."
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Such language is way too strong,
and
yet is surely not borne out by the history of Chinese Emigration under
contract, except to Savannah from places beyond the control of Her Majesty's Government and
do
may possibly be shown hereafter to
to S. no 318. 5 July
JE 67
These observations
less apply also to
any Emigration
• Vide Govt despatch formerly conducted from Macao, because I have shown that the Barracoons there
8709
were
frequently filled by
and
men
privately
forcibly taken from this native
villages, and I do not believe that
such men would have been passed
through the Regulation of such a Port
as
Macao, if the Authorities charged
with superintendence of the Emigration
had not been corrupt.
8.
Sir Rutherford Alcock's observations are, however, within
limit and
any
might be supposed by Prince Ming to apply equally to Emigration supervised by Her Majesty's Emigration Commissioner,