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with frank admissions & palliative excuses; but the broad faxt still remains a must remain for all time, that the regulations for the conduct of that traffic were model

of hermanity & civilization, but for

that can be explained only

reavour

in the words

311

in his reflections upon English action & motives in connexion with Chinese Emigration

but he

may

rest assured that competition

with the macas traffic.

was never intende

x

the regulations under which it was Conducted were

humane a

of senhor forvo, - Entirely

it

was

im possible

to arrest the inevitable abuses" - were not worth the

рареч

ora

which they

were printed, & the proof of that remains

in the history of the Cookie Traffic from

1852

they were

written

or Earlier to 1874,

when they abrogated, a history which

if

W? throw into the Shade the horrors of the African Slave trade with the addition that the one

way

framed

or

Equitable principles; a what is

importance were

What is of more оргоге

strictly carried out; but

as the Portuguese foot have

arrived at

the conviction that the " Coolie traffic had corrupted the morals of the Colony (of macao)

< alienated it from more

legitimate sources of prosperity" and

x W

"Consequently it's abolition was in convenenop with Portuguese traditions a to the honor of the Portuguese name "

the act of an European

it is

nation claiming to be Christian & civilized, & the other of a reation of Pagans a Savages.

Senkor forvo is somewhat unjust

in

only

courteous to

песенкачу

accept this as the raison d'être for the boom ber towed

x without question.

(52) D.B. Robertion