and belonging to the Steamship "Turae Bat" - which was fitted and left up here a few days back for kacas, for a cause of Coolies, has arrived here to fit up for the same purpose.
2. You will probably see that deeming the traffic in Natives of the Islands from their homes in the Pacific Ocean to labour on plantations to be a cause of great abuse, an Act (2 copies of which I enclose) was passed for the purpose of redressing the abuses connected with the movement.
Although great cruelty and kidnapping have been perpetrated in connection with this traffic in South Sea Islands, it cannot be doubted that there have been transactions which have led to the disgraceful and horrible occurrences from time to time reported as having taken place on board ships conveying Chinese Coolies from Macao.
It is quite impossible for the ship's government, which has been called upon to make repeated remonstrances to the Portuguese Government on the subject of the Coolie trade, to permit that there should be even the shadow of a justification for any such expectation that British subjects...