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Hoang cung
No:24
7th June, 1872.
Governor
to
Sir Arthur Kennedy K.C.M.G.,
The Right Honble
The Earl of Kimberly,
Emigration from Macao-
Transmits Translation of a Chinese Statement, relative to abuses Connected with.
A correct statement of the wicked practice of decoying and kidnapping respectfully laid before His Excellency.
1.
A man who is a coolie catcher and decoys people, the retribution for his crime is great and heavy. For when a man is kidnapped a whole family who look to him for support are deprived of it, they have no longer any one on whom they can depend, they are afflicted with grief, calling out with hunger and moaning with the cold. It is impossible to narrate all the evils. How is it that the coolie catcher fears not the wrath of heaven? He is only a coolie catcher because he really cannot help himself. If a Foreign vessel comes to China to invite labourers, the number which each vessel will carry is fixed at so many, and the coolie catcher has to enter into an agreement,
(Enclosure)