Whampoa with the full cognizance of the Chinese Authorities, and apparently, conducted in a manner satisfactory to all parties.
Enquiries by the Registrar General, as to a Coolie, supposed by his family to have been shipped Emigrant by the Spanish Agent at Canton, led to the then Acting Spanish Consul writing a long letter explaining many details of the Emigration from Whampoa. The letter seemed to be of much interest at present, and I referred it to Mr Sampson the British Emigration Agent at Canton, vide enclosure No.2, 18th January, 1879, that he might report as to its general accuracy.
I enclose Mr Sampson's reply, which, as Your Lordship will find, substantially confirms the Spanish Consul's Statements to the Registrar General. It is therefore certainly a matter of much interest to find Emigration to such a place as the Havannah openly and fairly conducted from a Chinese Port and countenanced by the Chinese Authorities. Admitting that some abuses may prevail under the best system, part of the Sub-Agents employed