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        "id": 232233,
        "series_id": 27,
        "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine",
        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-039 - Sir Bonham - 1852 [1-12]",
        "page_number": 94,
        "title": "CO129-039 - Sir Bonham - 1852 [1-12]",
        "content_text": "Incentive Council, and that their proceedings with a full knowledge \nof the facts have been confirmed \nand approved of by Her Majesty's \nGovernment.\n\n10. \n\nIn the case now \nbrought to your Lordship's notice I was fully prepared to cause Execution to be done on the Prisoners. The \"Teruel\" on board of which the \nMurder was committed was \na \nBritish Vessel; the murdered \nMan a British subject; and the murderers natives of Java, born under the Dutch Flag, and shipped at Singapore, British Settlement, and were therefore fully \naware that the \nCrime was punishable \nby death. At this time, moreover, \nit is particularly desirable that an example should be made of Persons convicted of crimes of \na serious nature committed on \nboard ship; reports having recently been received of certain Chinese emigrants who left Cumzingmoon, \na Port in China, having murdered the Master and others of that Vessel, off the Southern Points of Cambojia, and plundered the Vessel; as well as of an English Vessel named the \"Herald\", which left Shanghai on \nthe 26th August 1851, having been destroyed by the Crew, and the Captain and his wife and other British subjects murdered; about 100 Miles westward of the Straits of Sunda - and indeed, so \ndetermined was I to make",
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        "id": 237522,
        "series_id": 27,
        "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine",
        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-053 - Public Offices - 1855",
        "page_number": 279,
        "title": "CO129-053 - Public Offices - 1855",
        "content_text": "at the desire of the colonists from \n\nconsiderations of expenses. \n\nL \n\nThis \n\nBut, apart from West Indian Emigration, there is reason to apprehend that much fraud and even violence is practised by the native coolie Brokers who collect the Emigrant.\n\nIn some ships chartered for \n\nPeru a \n\ngreat \n\nmortality \n\nhas \n\nrecurred, accompanied in one \n\ncase \n\nwith circumstances! \n\ngreat barbarity \n\nwere lost or \n\nof \n\n; in others the \n\nmortality; in \n\n(furious \n\nFrom June 4th to June 5th inclusive, 24 ships embarked Chinese Emigrants for Peru; on three, the Chinese rose and mutinied against the captain - three put back leaky - on 17 the ships arrived and landed their Emigrants; the \n\nnti the average mortality was 4 per cent. In some the deaths were 20 or 30 per cent - and in one the ship \"Montague\" 199 persons died out of 244.\n\n18. R. Robertson to G. Hammond Esq.\n\nAv:10.1854.\n\nM \n\n1 \n\n275 \n\nChinese from ill treatment or other causes have mutinied and murdered the Europeans on board; \n\nboth in Peru and \n\nThe and finally, \n\nVia route to Panama.\n\nForm of Jamaica to the Bank of Mauritius 40/104-100cb18574.\n\nJamaica, the people appear after landing to have been subjected to the most shocking cruelty. Many Emigrants have been at Whampoa, Fuzingmoon, and Macao. But Amoy appears to have been the head quarters of what we will call the Foreign Emigration. The overbearing conduct, however, of some European Merchants at that port led to dangerous tumult involving loss of life and have driven a good deal of the Emigration",
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