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a certain day is fixed for the time of the vessels sailing, and the number must be completed by that day. When the coolie catcher has settled his arrangement, he seeks out in each village
and each district a subordinate coolie catcher and makes him enter into an agreement. At a fixed period each subordinate coolie catcher must supply the complete number of coolies according to the time fixed in the agreement with the Foreigner. If the appointed day passes without the coolie catcher having supplied the correct number of coolies, then the Foreigner requires the head coolie catcher to repay to him the money for the charter of the ship, the expenses of the rice and food and
whatever money he may have already received in advance from the Foreigner, as well as interest on each item of expense.
Then the head coolie catcher comes down on his subordinate to make him amend for the amount, just as the hammer strikes the chisel and the chisel repeats the blow on the wood. He presses him very hard and perhaps it comes to involving the security and causes the coolie catcher to overturn his household and dissipate his patrimony, to sell his wife and children and even then to make up any further deficiency. On this account, directly he has entered into an agreement, he must not delay a minute; he must hurry to the four points of the compass and invite labourers. If he is at all pressed for time, he must devise crafty schemes.
He makes use of a stupefying drug or practices deception or forcibly kidnaps. He puts into force every kind