the
503
for its remaining
00.
The very fact that
the parties interested in the shipment
of Coolies to Davannah and Pern, with
scarcely
an
exception
as
we have seen,
still prefer engaging
in the trade at
Macao where their vessels have to lie
at great
inconvenience and expense
four miles off the land, at the Num-
Using they
Macao
anchorage, and the fact that
they avoid this harbor, although it is
one
of the safest and most
convenient
in the world, and just
for the purpose of collecting laborers, is itself a proof that there still exist
at Macao inducements to the
procurement of human flesh which
he cannot and dare not expect
here.
12.
Therefore, so long as this Port is
free to Emigration of any description and
so long as that Emigration
is conducted
fairly and openly
here, where
the Coolie under contract
is free to
go
and converse with
any one for many
days before he is even allowed to decide
finally on embarking, and so
long
as there are incorruptible officials to watch the Emigration, nothing
eminently useful
can
malpractices such
as
formerly prevailed
at
Macao
may again prevail at
any
time
in the case of those like the Dutch Government who offer unquestionably
liberal terms and act up to them are