34
Regulations of Your Excellency's Government.
12.
As for the contradictory evidence, to which Your Excellency alludes, of the parties themselves, I am inclined to think that no fair deduction of the actual truth from those statements can reasonably be expected. Persons kidnapped or inveigled into the Barraccons must fail to appreciate the extent to which at Macao they may with security detail all the facts, as a Servant of a respectable European here, that his relatives are respectable, and that he was a person extremely unlikely to sign any contract binding him for eight years to labor in a distant country for a scanty pittance in the service of any party who might purchase the transfer of his contract, or in other words to whom he might be sold for a stringent term of years under most conditions of servitude. I do not undertake to explain his apparent prevarication and contradictions when under examination at Macao unless as the effect of terror. In the instance of the man Hoow-a, on whose behalf I recently interceded, there is no doubt that such is his real name and that a contract with a totally different name was produced as signed by him. It is also certain that he had been told that he had taken money willingly, which was to be afterwards deducted from his wages.
34
Regulations of Your Excellency's Government.
12.
As
for
the
contradictory
evidence,
to
which Your Excellency alludes, of the parties themselves, I am inclined to think that
mo
fair deduction of the actual truth
from those statiments can
reasonably be
or otherwise
expected. Persons Midnapped inveigled into the Barraccons must fail
appreciate
the extent to which at Macao
to
they may
with
security
detail all the
fat,
on
Servant
of a respectable European here. that
his relatives are
respectable, and that he
was
a person extremely unlitely to sign any contract binding him for eight years to labor in a distant country for a scanty pittance in the service of any party who might puchase the transfer of his contract, ar in other words to whom he might be sold for
stringent
a term of years under most #
conditions of servitude. I do not
undertatte to explain his apparent
prevarication and contradictions when under
facts connected with their cases. In the
instance of the man Hoow-a.
whose behalf I recently interceded, there
is no
though
doubt that such is his real
a
name was
mame
contract with a totally different
produced as signed by him. It
is also certain that he had been the #
examination at Macao
unless
as the
effect
terror.. I will however venture to say
never had meant to take and it is
he
unlikely that he
ever
any money
willingly
did take
to be afterwards deducted from
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