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the obstacles arise pom the British functionaries at the Port of embarkete and he adds there seems to be no

doubt on this point": "

I beg to assume your

Lordship that our Lousada is

wholly miserformed, and that

there never has been any-the

всексену slightest (stacle - imposed by British migration agents to the legal export of women, the best Evidence of which is to be found

in the harbour master's retum

of Emmigrants from this Calong.

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it will be seen from

of

which I have the honor to enclose

a copy;

this document that many women

have lately left this olony -

Jew

or none however for a kleine

Colony

But I am bound to add

that there is every reason to fear

that

+ great abuses exist wherever

women are

conveyed away

from China . As far as Jean learn, the women armbarked

for California Lave been mortly furnished by procurepes from

the

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