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Guantes.

Nee contumance of their must affect seriously upon the Emigration to new Colonies under contract which we have been struggling to arrange for the last 7 years; Also, we cannot tell to what extent the anti-foreign feeling of the Clergy faces and it will bring us face to face with the question - Are we to recognize the Portuguese Masters in Macao or not? They have undoubtedly recognition, but were the Chinese to assert their rights, the one use they have.

I have to recommend that Territorial advice would make it clear to the Portuguese and every one else that I had delivered myself to that effect. That they would bouently measure to reinstate any initiati then authenty at Macao, as I have before observed, I take leave to doubt.

I shall add, without pursuing the subject just now, that I have little hope of seeing our West Indian Colonies supplied with labour from China unless they can hold out inducements sufficient to tempt the voluntary emigrant. It is estimated that there are at present 80,000 Chinese in California and about 100,000 to 200,000 in the Straits Settlements.

If there be really wherewithal to prove the Chinese labourers can make a subsistence in British Guiana, it needs but to ascertain the labour market to shake the ...

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Guantes. Nee contumance of their must affect seriously upon the Emigration to new Colonies under contract which we have been struggling to arrange for the last 7 years; Also, we cannot tell to what extent the anti-foreign feeling of the Clergy faces and it will bring us face to face with the question - Are we to recognize the Portuguese Masters in Macao or not? They have undoubtedly recognition, but were the Chinese to assert their rights, the one use they have. I have to recommend that Territorial advice would make it clear to the Portuguese and every one else that I had delivered myself to that effect. That they would bouently measure to reinstate any initiati then authenty at Macao, as I have before observed, I take leave to doubt. I shall add, without pursuing the subject just now, that I have little hope of seeing our West Indian Colonies supplied with labour from China unless they can hold out inducements sufficient to tempt the voluntary emigrant. It is estimated that there are at present 80,000 Chinese in California and about 100,000 to 200,000 in the Straits Settlements. If there be really wherewithal to prove the Chinese labourers can make a subsistence in British Guiana, it needs but to ascertain the labour market to shake the ... Page 77.
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