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acquaintance with a degraded class of abreintes confirmed in Grime as their chic pursuit, because such class does not existi here.

4.

I may say, therefore that I am not met by any difficulty in that direction, whereas the

the

difficulties in managing Chinese Prisoners are extreme._ Your Ernce with understand that I mean thereby the difficulties connected with instituting such

A

system of discipline and

labor

may

as without actual inhumanity the

have

a deterrent effect

Severities

(Surindes,

the thousands in the vicinity he th

suicides of Chinese are not of

the same significa

industrian

sincidas blive some ebony

are

by the Cash

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eviposit

of the Base, who are quite ready to run the risk of becoming inmates of it, if there be the least relaxation in the disagreeable feral character

of its discipline.

5. The Meanliness and good ventilation of the base combined with the sufficiency of wholesome food neceḥarily allowed to the frisoners - in all which particulars Civilized Government can

shange, render it an

A

make no

abode so superior and so

far

beyond any usual habitation of

the Chinese confined there, that

nothing but a

severely penal

discipline can prevent the