CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12] — Page 337

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I hose persons are not collected by crimps, Hidnapped - nor would their liberty of actions appears to de interfered with by frand

misrepresentation. They generally hale

or m.

are

hale men, in

the piler adventurous

most

of

a

ands laborious. the mortality on boards the Emigrant Ships to Australia and California presents

+ favorable contrast to that of Coolie's sent to the Colonies under labor contracts, who are so frequently in a low state of wretchedness

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and exhaustion, either) suffering

from or subject to latent diseases undermining their

constitutions and to some extent accounting

for the lamentable statistics of

death which have so

naturally excited the

tention of Her Mayeshja Government.

attente

I have the honor tobe, With theshighest respect,

Sir,

Your Most Obedient Humble Pervar?,