Hot Weed 50 to 55 days, & that their Keep during the Passage to be from 110 to 120 soles per head, according to their Munister,
Anything in the way of ameliorating the means of Conveying Coolies across the Pacific must be hailed by Corsyne Jupass Colonization; for it is to be feared that many of these Cargoes of human beings have often been subjected, in sailing vessels, to great inconvenience & Suffering, whatever may have been the means adopted by Many Importers to obviate them:
(Signed) John Hafford Sconceighame
No.55. Command
Mr Jerningham
Linia. Aug 13.
Coolies
Iply Translated from the Lima Nacional
The Peruvian Consul in Macao has
In 11098/145
4 = August 1869.
forwarded a highly important communication to the Government with respect to the treatment & condition of Asiatic Emigrants wherein, according to statistical reports, the mortality amongst the Coolies Cargoes, partly ascends to 25 per cent, more or less, through the bad system followed then during their passage and partly through inferior accommodation on board. M. Tejerina adds that in his opinion all these now existing drawbacks would be obviated were Steam-vessels employed which would, he says, possess the following advantages:
1st The mortality would be insignificant because