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COOLIES. 



to purchase the putting down of this system by- 

 permitting the French to enlist Coolies in Hin- 

 dostan. This coimtry wants every hand born 

 within its limits : strangers viewing the densely 

 crowded ports, the capitals, the chief cities and 

 their neighbourhoods, are apt to believe the vast 

 and wealthy peninsula over-populated, when it 

 abounds in tracts of primeval forest, through 

 which a man may march a fortnight without 

 seeing a human being. Our first duty is evi- 

 dently to the land which belongs to us. 



I was the more careful minutely to report the 

 free emigration system on account of an egre- 

 gious deceit successfully passed off upon one of 

 our officials. In 1856 a certain M. Lambert, 

 agent at Aden for the house of Messrs Menon, 

 Lambert, et Com^e^ of the Mauritius Steam Navi- 

 gation Company, persuaded the Political Re- 

 sident, Lieut.-Colonel Coglilan, that Zanzibar 

 annually exported 49,000 slaves to Bcrberah, 

 Zayla, Tajurrah, and the ports of Arabia and 

 Southern Asia. This more than doubled the 

 greatest number annually imported into the 

 Island: and the latter no longer publicly ex- 

 ported slave-cargoes, although many ran away to 

 seek fortune in India, whilst far more were kid- 

 napped by the northern Arabs. In fact, it con- 



