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Sr MN There were 14 Men Rativis
Fair Shan
Cancon
-
snortly
bakkas,
Echen questioned they stated they everer going
going to work
ork for themselves, the master of The house only procuring Barrage "tickets"
for them.
to Vingapore
That They Evere to
I work in a
Carpenters shop. 5 get to pay the first year,
only food and Clothing, but after that receive
from $25 to $30 a year, they were not
being sold. They
evere
afraid Confined in the
house, they could walk about outside Evhenever + They pleased, Evere told they evere not to be
found
in the streets at right after 9. Bon, They did not- Evish to return to their native
Places. They fully intend to
6 go to Singapore, They had no Complaint to make
A number of the houses trentioned
Célits list are not Coolie houses, but
Places Extrere Barage tickets for Singapore
and
Clustralia
are sold, these then ge
the tickets from the Steamers' Agents,
de
sell them from $1.50 to $2 more than they Jay for them to intending emigrants like
don't know &where to apply for Bassage tickets
Then taking the Comigrants to the Harbour
Master and
board the Ships.
against the
Ethen
any
of
Man She brought them to the Colony, Evere
Thankful to Sum for,
for getting
Thern
employment
Or house M: 1044 there was
16 snen woke Evere going to Port Darwin, They Evere (Ewith the exception of For 4) men who had been there before, they
out
fatted
with bags
Cooking Extensite, Mining
suere Evell
and boxes of Clothing,
: from there on
The Cooles
arte
very Alurid,
substitute is put in at the Harbour Office
to answer the Recessary Questions .
I find that the number of
Coolies who leave this Colony having thin
parrage paid by other parties
are not do
great
CA
represented, they
are engaged to
anoc
farming
Passages,
tools, they
and weri
Evere all paying their own,
Ework for Chinese Companys in the Straits Settlements. Those Coolies Etho
o go
to Australia
either pay their own passage or it is paid
going