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9.

years ago

the

and

at any

rate fence it round and keep it - until it can be used for European healing, rather than let it be a

for what is inficitely

2.

mursing ground

worse than disease.

The Driad Society find its enccess urside the Colony, but only in a

way;

hidden~

while beyour Hongkong waters, it originated the mischief to be carried out in barracoons . The laborers and coolies in Hongkong establish these places, calling them such and such kwan to and distinguishing them by the five characters Though they

·labourers lodgings,

ove

are

-openly known

ite

every ca

∞o

there

is a secret asuciation, And there are

sonce which are not labourers lodgings at all, but exducively devoted to the Triad Societer. Therefore while these places exist, it is easy to assemble, and also easy to form so

to form Societies. At any a fact that these twan or ke (hi)

rate it is

are almost all Triad assemblies

where

where mischief is bred. Two: rist originated on the Recreation Grand in these places, which should be a

Therefore to disperse to

a-l

warning

to disperse them would be the best way,

right. It

summon.

seeurs

the

owners, to

hame

first

b

• get the tenant

to register themselves, and then to make the tenanto the

5 five

of labourers who resort to them, that they may give

security and get

a licence, those that

live in families might be exempted from frieding security and get a free

licence. Then instruction should be wered to all employer to engage only. licensed men, and to the Police to seize all labourers who have no licence. In

Course

cour

( find

of time labourers would,

it desirable to live in

a ewall

in families, and when the method has taken effect, fee might be charged for a licence, and by degrees a heavier security might

be demanded from those who had no families . Thus perhaps the

barracoons