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to the unlicensed collection of men,

rather astonishes me.

It is the

complete absence of frand practised. on other Emigrants that has made Hony kory the channel of Emigration to foreign countries, auch I maroch

there at tur sampson's eilener of facts. For the absence of the

tragedies

on

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vessel's

board this clearing in this Colony is the best broog of the confidence of the Chimen in British laws auch their administration. Sampson's assertions that he knows there is in this

Colony

"Recruiters

an army of (crimps?) for the collection of men for Cuba, Perm te, but that

notwithstanding he could get :s

information

of the

is a

As

to

the destination_

men collected in the houses,

I dare say

marvel.

the little

success attending

that

his

inquiries respecting the destination

of the Emigrants

arose from

the

Fade.

distrust in him Xersonal..

he sat down

among

them and spoken

to them pankly be would have been overheaped with questions such as "We are

going to the Straits, would I'te, Sampson

advise us to do so

you advise

might have seen from

of

?

the number

women auch children in the adjacent freunies or crowding the houses, that they could not be

round

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