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19. Mr Jam held to take an exaggerated view of the horrors of the Coolie Trade. No one would say so who had had my experience. I believe in 1883 Sir William Robinson directed me as Attorney General with the effectual aid of Mr. Mayers then Interpreter to the Consulate at Canton to take the informations of the hundreds of Coolies whom he released from out of the Coolie Ship the "Ville d'Anjou". These informations preserved in your office. There are histories of misery. I then was compelled to collect filled me with horror which has never left me.
As an instance - during that examination one of the so-called Coolies, a school master told his tale and watching him daily I saw him sink from the kidnapped capable school master into the merest confirmed idiot and as such he was sent back to his native village.
I doubt not that like causes in the thousands of cases which I have since known or heard of have produced and are producing like effects.