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those on which the crew of the "Inkula" were engaged.
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Though possibly the term "unscrupulous" was somewhat harsh
to use with reference to the keen enterprise of the owners
of that vessel and of the "Inkum". I have still grave
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doubts as to whether enterprise of this nature is really
deserving of your special support. I am also still of
opinion that the proper course for these owners to have
pursued was to have sent the men home when they no longer
required their services in the manner I understand to have
been originally contemplated by their Agents, that is by
obtaining cheap passages for them by arrangement with some
other line. This is what was done in the case of the
a
"Ikbul" also belonging to Messrs. Welsford and Company
which arrived here on May 19th., 1904, from Singapore in
ballast and left for Taku on the 2nd. June to be employed
in the coolie trade. In the interval 43 (not 44 as report-
29th
-ed in my Confidential Despatch of the 8th. September,
1904) Europeans were discharged by mutual consent on the
25th. May, and sent home at the owners' expense, while a
Chinese crew was shipped in their stead.
This plan has been followed in
the case of other vessels engaged to carry emigrants to
South Africa e.g. the "Swanley", "Cranley" and "Courtfield"
belonging
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