CO129-058 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [8-10] — Page 361

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" the disproportion between

" the European Residents and

" the Native population so

" "great, the controlling force

so small or

" the risk of

" infusing into an inext mass

"

" the spirit

and experience of

" a more lawless and daring

#

race, so obvious and palpable -

• The Convicts in question

are

• stated to be principally Pirates,

"

i.e. Men familiar with

violence and bloodshed

" accustomed to

a

----

wild and

hard life, proficient in the "arts of accomplished European

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" criminaldom, just the men in " short, whom it is difficult " to keep in custody or impossible " to trust when out of it. As Settlers or Ticket of leave men (and some such softening " of its rigours every system of

Transportation requires) they

#

" would be the worst Colonists

" and the most dangerous

neighbours to any quiet and " orderly Chinese Settlement that " might hereafter be attempted " in Ceylon. If worked

as

" Prison laborers, they would

" require for themselves, and

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" the disproportion between " the European Residents and " the Native population so " "great, the controlling force so small or " the risk of " infusing into an inext mass " " the spirit and experience of " a more lawless and daring # race, so obvious and palpable - The Convicts in question are stated to be principally Pirates, " i.e. Men familiar with violence and bloodshed " accustomed to a ---- wild and hard life, proficient in the "arts of accomplished European J Page 359 D 1 " criminaldom, just the men in " short, whom it is difficult " to keep in custody or impossible " to trust when out of it. As Settlers or Ticket of leave men (and some such softening " of its rigours every system of Transportation requires) they # " would be the worst Colonists " and the most dangerous neighbours to any quiet and " orderly Chinese Settlement that " might hereafter be attempted " in Ceylon. If worked as " Prison laborers, they would " require for themselves, and
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· " the disproportion between " the European Residents and " the Native population so " "great, the contr the controulling force. so small or the risk of " infusing into an inext mass " the spirit. and experience of " a more lawless and daring # race, so obvious and palpable - The Convicts in question are stated to be principally Pirates, " i e. Men familiar with violence and bloodshed " accustomed to a ---- wild and hard life, proficient in the "arts of accomplished buropean J 359 D 1 " coffianiom, just the mon in " short, whom it is difficult " to keep in custody or impossible " to hust when out of it. As Settlers or Ticket of leave men of and some such softening " of its rigours every system of · Transportation requires) they # " would be the worst Colonists " and the most dangerous neighbours to any quiet and " orderly Chinese Settlement that " might hereafter be attempted " in Ceylon. If worked as " Prison laborers, they would " require for themselves, and
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" the disproportion between

" the European Residents and

" the Native population so

" "great, the contr the

controulling force.

so small or

the risk of

" infusing into an inext mass

"

the spirit.

and experience of

" a more lawless and daring

#

race, so obvious and palpable -

• The Convicts in question

are

• stated to be principally Pirates,

"

i e. Men familiar with

violence and bloodshed

" accustomed to

a

----

wild and

hard life, proficient in the "arts of accomplished buropean

J

359

D

1

" coffianiom, just the mon in " short, whom it is difficult " to keep in custody or impossible " to hust when out of it. As Settlers or Ticket of leave men of and some such softening " of its rigours every system of

· Transportation requires) they

#

" would be the worst Colonists

" and the most dangerous

neighbours to any quiet and " orderly Chinese Settlement that " might hereafter be attempted " in Ceylon. If worked

as

" Prison laborers, they would

" require for themselves, and

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