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steamer, train and junk - the island itself is only some

20 miles from the Chinese border and 90 from Canton and the Colony's native population of (say) soma 400,000

is for the most part a constantly moving one. It is

no more possible to recognise and keep a check on the mui taai moving to and fro than it is to recognise and keep a check on all robbers and bad characters from the

interior.

The Colony has, with the active assistance of resident Chinese, developed its own system of detecting and dealing with abuses as far as possible: this will be referred to below. It appears that something more is asked for: but the only suggestion made is for some form of registration. A very slight local knowledge would show that the practical difficulties in the way of registering all mui taai in the Colony are so great as to render the suggestion of mall value at the best: the regulations would have to contain Sections appointing Inspectors, (who, if not Europeans, would have at least to be under the closest European supervision), with large powers of entry to private houses; penalties for gement s breach would be necessary; + and with it all we should be required ver the cases only at best irritate without making any real advance. vellers

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olony.

Csses of abuse could be just as easily covered: mui tsai are young and simple, with all the stupidity and timidity of the most rustic inexperience, and the truth is rarely

to be got from them or through them; witnesses on their side are very rarely to be found, while the kid- napper or procurese has little difficulty in finding sup-

relationship port for any story that may fit the case; itself can be claimed, with little chance of the claim being disproved. All the evil disposed would be no wors

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