CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10] — Page 168

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36.

the

food i

od was

putty good-not

very good. I was provided

" with bed and lodging - Icons

not allowed to

out

I the

"house - the fourth prisoner kept "watch upon us and prevented us from going out all the

" doors and windows were

t

" nailed up - we were all in

"

"one room

"there.

(corrects himself.),

were two or three rooms

"we could walk about in

the windows and doors of all

those rooms were nailed up- what I complain of is, that

I had been promised

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payment of $4 immediately

"I arrived in this Colony,

#

and I have not been.

" paid it. It was no use

" for me to

go

out of the

"house because I had no

f

money. If I had wished i

" I should not have been

" permitted - I am willing to " go to a foreign country, "if my money is paid mo- " I do not know what country I was to be taken to - I was

"to work at a

"as a

- farmer .

form yard

I

I was told

"that I should come back

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