The Hawaiian gazette., 1870-09-14

give us the name, or put us on lne Track,
in any way. of identifying such person,
efficient means will be used to restore
this merchant of great wealth " to his
counting room at Macao or wherever 1t
may be.
But why should Chinese merchant of
great wealth be restrained in the hold of
this ship, when all they could get from
him would be his agreed passage, or such
profit as the time of his contract would
bring in Callao, (of course, we understand
that if he was kidnapped he had no con-
tract, in which case, what profit is it to
be at any rate?) and he could draw his
check at any time, for an amount infinitely
beyond the profit they could expect to
get from him. Men who have acquired
great wealth, are generally astute in man
aging business, and know their rights and
how to avail themselves of them. As
we have said above, we do not defend
the manner in which the men were OBJ
tanned to go on board of the Dolores
Ugarte, for we know nothing about it.
But this we do know, that the Captain
came to this port with the most liberal in
structions to recruit his ship and men,
that he was proceeding to do so by landing
his sick, by purchasing literally and seek
ing the means to allow the balance OF his
passengers to come on shore, when a
rabidly enthusiastic gentleman thought 1t
more advisable, although the first prompt
ings of his humane heart was to let the
cargo land, to make little commotion,
whereby the ship should hurry off with
less recruits than was necessary, and with
out having the ship properly supplied in
order as he says " to prevent this hellish
traffic by making it improbable" (see
P. c. a, Aug. 27)-sickness and death
among the men being the mode by which
he sought - make it Improbable
1t does not seem to have occurred to
these excellent gentlemen, first, that the
same persons who tell such falshoods to
ourselves and to our faces, may possibly
conjure up fictions in regard to other peo-
pie. If the ship has gone on with the men
" fostering, dying and cursing us who did
not help them" we can reply that
the Captain of the ship was trying to
help them, and it certainly cannot be said
that he was unmolested," since finding
that he was to be molested he took his
anchor and sailed for Tahiti. Nor does it
seem to have occurred to them that steer
age passengers on board of most ships ex-
aggerate and intensifytheir difficulties. We
have seen sickness on board of emigrant'
ships coming into the city of New York
from Cork, Dublin and Liverpool, and
heard of more The filth of steerage pas
is not in consequence of the Off
GERS of the ships, but in spite of them, and
the quarrels between the officers and the
passengers arise, most generally, from
their efforts to keep the men clean and to
compel them to leave their hunks and 60
on deck. And we have the authority of
Dr. Robert McKibbin, jr., who visited this
ship professionally, and who has had much
experience in former years on board pas
senger ships, for saying that the ship was
clean, and that every care was taken of
the passengers. And indeed little refec-
ton would show any one, that such would
probably have been the case, since the mas
ter has large bonus for each passenger
that should be landed at Callao. We are
on the best authority, that there
were no closed gratings on the matches,
and the passengers were allowed to 90 on
deck at will, in fact, at the time Of the visit
of our informant, none of the passengers
were below land the fact that barbados are
put up between the after part and the for
ward part ofthe ship, when carrying five or
six hundred unknown men, Is certainly no
privation to the passengers, and no more
on their sensitive natures, than
it is to their neighbors, when people lock
their doors at night on retiring to bed.