126

alike with Indians, and Chinese,

and although these vices are Hopt in Check in Mauritius

by

the

Police systion, they would soon assume propertions equal to those

: in Hongshing

believed to exist in

the most effective me

reasures not enforced to counteract them.

179.

were

The rumours which

went about Hargstang

soon after

an

the Tientsin Meafame of impending attack on Europeans

by natives, produced great excitement in the Public mind, and yet

reliable information was obtainable

as to whether

any

reasonable

grounds for alarm existed..

180.

285

The Placards of an

127

Inflamatory Character, stated to have been posted about Hongshing, taken together with the fact of several serious attempts made at that time to fire the bity, certainly appeared to warrant every preparation being made for any emergency, more particularly when the attempt that

some)

years

was made

since to prison all

Foreigners by Arsenie be borne in

mind .

181.

I remember a somewhat

Coolies

similar state of alarm brought about at the Maurities, by

revelling

of the Plantation,

on some of

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