time the deck was covered with blood:- as each coolie
was flogged he was washed
with salt and water and sent below.
We arrived at Anger, Batavia, on the 9th Sept!, remained there two days, & thence proceeded to the pauritius & there took in water & coal, the ship remaining in quarantine :- from the Mauritius we event to the Cape of Good Hope. In all these ports the
Coolies
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Coolies were kept below: s while coating
on
was
going the hatches were put on,
& the hospital "bulkheads for the nick were kept closed. The heat was intolerable even in the open
air.
The voyage for the Cookies
of the most unimaginable sufferings.
was one
they were struck, kicked flogged- totherwise treated with the greatest brutality. the filth &steuch was something horrible. the hospitals