Repatriate house and are made to undergo a severe punishment by flogging. They are then taken to a barracoon and are brought up before a pretended Foreign Officer, and are asked to declare if they are willing to go. If they say they are unwilling to go, they are immediately punished for having received their money and then backing out.
The coolie catcher follows them to each place and substantiates his story. The pretended Foreign officer sentences them to even a heavier punishment. They are then transferred to another place and undergo a repetition of the punishment and are severely beaten, subjected to more, and this continues until they express their willingness to go. The next day they are taken before a real Foreign Officer to be examined.
These country clowns, being in dread of the regime they have gone through, are compelled by forces of circumstances to give in. A great many of these country people have never even seen a foreigner, much less been to a foreign country, or even to Macao. When they get to a distant place, they are flurried, and have no resource. If they are driven out of doors, whom have they got to fall back upon? Perhaps they are recommended to run away secretly, and private orders are given for them to be seized and put into another barracoon, and they undergo similar treatment - they are thrashed most unmercifully until it becomes impossible for them to refuse.
When they arrive at a foreign place, both the people and the locality being strange to them, where can they find means to live?
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