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of those who
have
gone
may be at home, abroad. We were all born
in China, and left that region of plenty and equity, because of
our extreme poverty, and went far off into the confines of other lands; it was in the first part of Tung Chi's reign (1861), that the banditti and rebels (in Kwang-tung) by their excesses rendered all laborers, and craftsmen unable to find employment, and we then met with
persons, who were seeking for
workmen,
both at Macao and the anchorage of Sin-chmoon (just north of it) when we were to embark. An agreement was made at the time, between the two parties, with particulars in full,
they still appear to examination; but who would ever have supposed that it would be thus perverted and altered? Within the past twenty years, not less than several myriad of men have successively
come
to this part, who have
requested employment
and have been
settled and
when they laboured
As
and under protection,
engaged in pasturing - feeding horses; they have gone
as directed, and in other
tilling land, and digging wells,
they have obeyed their employers' orders.
But their toil
from morning till
evening, and they have
not rested either
in cold or
heat. Can it be supposed
that we who write this do not fully know the value of working for
a ...