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Whampoa with the full cognizance of the Chinese Authorities, and apparently, conducted in a manner satisfactory to all parties.

Enquiries by the Registrar General, as to a Coolie, supposed by his family to have been shipped Emigrant by the Spanish Agent at Canton, led to the then Acting Spanish Consul writing a long letter explaining many details of the Emigration from Whampoa. The letter seemed to be of much interest at present, and I referred it to Mr Sampson the British Emigration Agent at Canton, vide enclosure No.2, 18th January, 1879, that he might report as to its general accuracy.

I enclose Mr Sampson's reply, which, as Your Lordship will find, substantially confirms the Spanish Consul's Statements to the Registrar General. It is therefore certainly a matter of much interest to find Emigration to such a place as the Havannah openly and fairly conducted from a Chinese Port and countenanced by the Chinese Authorities. Admitting that some abuses may prevail under the best system, part of the Sub-Agents employed

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Whampoa with the full cognizance of the Chinese Authorities, and apparently, conducted in a manner satisfactory to all parties. Enquiries by the Registrar General, as to a Coolie, supposed by his family to have been shipped Emigrant by the Spanish Agent at Canton, led to the then Acting Spanish Consul writing a long letter explaining many details of the Emigration from Whampoa. The letter seemed to be of much interest at present, and I referred it to Mr Sampson the British Emigration Agent at Canton, vide enclosure No.2, 18th January, 1879, that he might report as to its general accuracy. I enclose Mr Sampson's reply, which, as Your Lordship will find, substantially confirms the Spanish Consul's Statements to the Registrar General. It is therefore certainly a matter of much interest to find Emigration to such a place as the Havannah openly and fairly conducted from a Chinese Port and countenanced by the Chinese Authorities. Admitting that some abuses may prevail under the best system, part of the Sub-Agents employed

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Whampoa with the full cognizance of the Chinese Authorities, and apparently, conducted in a

Vina.

a manner/

satisfactory to all parties.

Enquiries by the Registrar General, us to a Colic, supposed by his family to have been shipped

Emigrant by the Spanish :Agent at Canton, led to the then Aating Spanish Consul writing

: long letter explaining many details of the Emigration

tion from Whumpore. The letter seemed to

mu̸ome/

of much interest at present, and Ireferred it to Mr Sampson the British Emigration Agent at Canton,

nclosure N.2. 18th January, 1879.

that he might report as to its general accuracy.

Jencloses Mr Sampson's

509

reply, which as Your Lordship --

will find, substantially confirms the Spanish Consul's Statements to the Registrar General. It is therefore certainly a matter of by much interest to find

Emigration to such a place as the Havannah opery and fairly conducted from

a Chinese Port and

Countenanced by the Chinese_ Authorities. Admitting that some abuses may prevail

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