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She had been av... The beich from... The 13th of last July, and the mere fact that a period of 6 months had elapsed before she could procure her complement of Emigrants, would indicate that the scrupulous investigation of the Emigrants, and the freedom which they enjoy here for the purpose of making inquiries, with the right at any time before embarking of declining to proceed... whilst numerous facilities for making offered by the Police and an Association of their own countrymen - all render the chance of a ship here filling up profitably with Emigrants for Peru, very inferior to that which she would have at Macao. There the supervision exercised over Emigrants for Peru is evidently much less stringent than here, and ...such declaration are... 234.
3... The enclosed official return taken from the Macao Gazette proves that less than 4,835 Emigrants are admitted to have been shipped from Macao to Peru in the last 7 months of 1869, when the Emigration, which had been temporarily forbidden, was reopened.
One great cause of the long delay in the "Frederic" obtaining Emigrants was the jealousy of the Macao Coolie Brokers who went to no little expense in throwing obstacles in M. Nicaise's way - at least so he reported to me, and I have reason to believe that...