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population having flocked from thence to California - this defection must be made up from some quarter in China - there is already available as it is not unlikely to see. Chinese settled on the Western shores of South America; the settlers retaining all their Asiatic habits, and imbuing the American blood with which they will have intermingled, to a hundred thousand indices kindred to their prejudices with tastes and ... It will be a curious thing at some future day to find a new race of this kind cross, never known before, between two of the great original races - the American and Mongolian - rapidly extending itself along the base of the Andes and Western shores of the Pacific, the habits and peculiar tastes of the Chinese blood predominating, thereby extending a demand for the products of the mother country, promoting trade and navigation, forming new bonds between distant nations and Governments, and thus widening the lines of civilization, and marking the World's progress.

That this is not an idle vision is evident from the fact that nearly 2,000 healthy Chinese have already been shipped from China for the Western shores within 10 months! That these young and lusty fellows must intermingle with the dark beauties of the Country, Creole, Mulatto, and Mestiza, is plain enough; and equally plain that the cross will be more of a Chinaman than an American, and with instinctive Asiatic tastes and prejudices.

Looking forward to our own time, it is likely that Hongkong will become the chief seat of the trade for the supply of that new population. And prospects arising from the West are not discouraging - the Chilian Government, under the dearth of labor already noticed, have proclaimed a bounty of $30 a head.

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344 population having flocked from thence to California - this defection must be made up from some quarter in China - there is already available as it is not unlikely to see. Chinese settled on the Western shores of South America; the settlers retaining all their Asiatic habits, and imbuing the American blood with which they will have intermingled, to a hundred thousand indices kindred to their prejudices with tastes and ... It will be a curious thing at some future day to find a new race of this kind cross, never known before, between two of the great original races - the American and Mongolian - rapidly extending itself along the base of the Andes and Western shores of the Pacific, the habits and peculiar tastes of the Chinese blood predominating, thereby extending a demand for the products of the mother country, promoting trade and navigation, forming new bonds between distant nations and Governments, and thus widening the lines of civilization, and marking the World's progress. That this is not an idle vision is evident from the fact that nearly 2,000 healthy Chinese have already been shipped from China for the Western shores within 10 months! That these young and lusty fellows must intermingle with the dark beauties of the Country, Creole, Mulatto, and Mestiza, is plain enough; and equally plain that the cross will be more of a Chinaman than an American, and with instinctive Asiatic tastes and prejudices. Looking forward to our own time, it is likely that Hongkong will become the chief seat of the trade for the supply of that new population. And prospects arising from the West are not discouraging - the Chilian Government, under the dearth of labor already noticed, have proclaimed a bounty of $30 a head.
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