CO129-169 - Others - 1874 — Page 189

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but has been able to protect the Cookies, (mostly Indian) who are vo Cicutarily conveyed in great numbers yearly colonies, from those abuse, & to secure them an existence worthy of human beings.

to her own

In examining the Coolie questiontta Impl. God! has not omitted to notice. the essential difference which exists between the real Cookie Trade & the So-called (1.8. voluntary) Emigration

or Conveyance, already referred to, of Chinese Coolies, which takes place not only to the British Colonies, — Especially the Straits Settlements, & on the Chinese Court itself proud me port to another, but also to the listed States (Especially California), the Sandwich Sands, New Zealand &o to a great extent, & mostly with the best result for the Coolies

Abuses also occur in this, but they are not of the same kind as

these

which

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which distinguish the Coolie Trade there is no voluntary

as such. For there

Emigration at all to those comitries which the Coolie Prada supplies with

hands.

labouring

The evils which occur in the latter consist in a

of

greedy overloading the Ships & respectively

a

to-

deficient supply of provisions. It is the more urgently necessary strive against this independently

of

the consideration of what measures are to be taken against the Coolie. Trade, inasmuch as the want of definite bounds for the loading of the Ships gives an impulse to the real Coolie Trade.

in the

Some states have regulated the Conveyance of free Coolies by special rules; England, for example, the -

Portugal, U.S. If America & above-mentioned Laws issued against the Coolie Trade, & the respective subseque supplementing

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