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AGENT

**1:

own knowledge

three finese houvre

and probably there are many more in Hongkong in which Coolice are collected

for service abroad, and the Colony i

army of recruiters for

overrun

with

GL-Zh

the Macas Dapoli for

Cuba and

these and for. the collection of coolice for Perce. I have endeavoured to ascertain

братвер

but without

any success.

what was

the destination.

f

the men

collected in these houses, and a man

whone I sent there in the guise of an

applicant for

service abroad informed

me that he could only leave that

the teams re would be made known

after

embarkation - he conceded

however in detaching from the wall

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of one of these Houses a small notice from which it appears that

that they

profefedly collect Cookies for

service

in the Grad mince" - 1.2. the Straite Settle=

-ments- whither

Emigrate

under

many

Chinese do really

brief contract offerviel

to Chinese Proprietore - at the same time

it is

very protable that the "Lead mines" is a mere name under which Cookie are collected for transfer with pecuniary gain to Macas, expecially

on the number.

imposed o

the

at

of papenger.

the check

carried,

the finese Papenger Act,

map of the Straits/migranti

to go from Porte and in

Brilib:

Another case

Ships not

which

appeare

to me illustrative of the want of super =

easury