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whatever in the matter and had only moved from to pay for motives of humanity their release. Whether the statements, I have mentioned, were not to be credited, in which case the men should not have been released at all, or they were true, in which case the loss should have fallen on the barracoon purchasers - the purchasers of stolen goods, and which stolen goods, they must have known to have been stolen.
8. The disgraceful abuses of the Coolie traffic as carried on hitherto at Macao and Whampoa chiefly by Portuguese and Americans are here matters of public notoriety, and certainly not calculated to raise civilized nations in the estimation of the Chinese. The system of supervision before the Portuguese established at Macao, affords us little or no security against abuse; for if a Coolie expresses unwillingness to emigrate, he is not set at large, but is returned to the barracoon where he is beaten and tortured until he consents to join.
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