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He added that number of Junindentured labourers in addition produced only 1200 hogsheads. "Chinese Immigrants in Cuba" are treated precisely like slaves "as regards" with the whip and worked in hard labour, being punished during crop time night and day with very little intermission. In like manner M. Bunch, at that time Consul General in Cuba, stated that the Chinese labourer in that island is practically in the uncontrolled power of the Planter and that his hours of labour far exceed the hours of labour in S. Quiana. He added, at a personal interview, that the Planters enforce labour in the field through the agency of drivers who act as overseers for that purpose (the Chinese objecting to the use of a whip) without stint or mercy.
4. The acceptance of the Chinese convention by the Spaniard naturally places the British government at great disadvantage in seeking a modification of it in respect to the time at which a return passage should be claimable. Nevertheless, the expense to the British Planter of giving a return passage at the end of 5 years or paying the equivalent of it, as required by the convention, would be so out of proportion to the value of the labour to be obtained, that
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