The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-08-12

some $4,000 profit. The NOuueHe Penelope, moreoseT, was
not an exceptional ship ON the same authority we learn IAat
an estimated average Of 1000 eInigrants per month leave
Macao under similar regulations ; but their cases not having
come within the Jurisdiction of a British court Of justice we
board "'' =" same
The fitting up of the vessel named above, is in keep
ing with the vessels which have touched at this port
but we have been permitted to witnessa feature of
the voyage to which the resident of China is a
stranger. We see the 9 article man !" after a voyage
of from forty to sixty days, thin and emaciated,
with leaden hue and eruptive diseases upon his skin,
indicative of a want Of pure air, cleanliness and
nourishing food. and with a mien that tells that de-
spair reigns uppermost in his mind. 1t is well for
the friends of humanity, and for the Chinese p~articu-
larry, that the Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of
Hongkong is a man that knows his duty, and dares
perform it. The correspondent says:
The judge animadverted in very severe terms on this traffic,
and said that the time had come for a stop TO be put To a trade
which the experience of the last three years especially has
shown cannot be carried on without barbarities which the
mind shudders to think Of. We at least cannot be Indifferent
to what has become a blot on our common humanity. For this
case of the NouueHe Penelope is not the only one We all
remember the case of the Il-fat ted ship navigated from the coast
of Peru to Japan, the fate OF whose crew is still a mystery.
We are assured that within a short period some six or seven
wise DESTROYED. with an enormous loss of life, both of the So
called emigrants and their crews. " VIII men" adds the
in these e~ventsi"
Brave words and timely spoken. While upon this
subject let US clip the following touching the ship
Dolores UgGrte, of infamous memory
From the China Mail (Extra) May 81
On Thursday last the Dolores Ugarte was towed out OF
Macao harbor, having $50 passengers on board, bound for Peru.
On Sunday the Captain and crew (ess one) returned TO
Macao in the ships boats and reported =
L. That on Saturday a fire was discovered in the hold
2. That one of the crew was sent down with u water hose TO
put the fire out.
8. That this man was set upon and murdered by the pas
sengers.
4. That the Captain, with a view to the preservation of his
own and his crews lives, battened down the matches on the
passengers " in the hold, and took to the boats, in which, as
has been stated, they reached Macao yesterday.
g.. That the Captain knows nothing whatever Of what has
become Of the ship and " passengers, but believes that both
have been burned together, inasmuch as the passengers"
being battened down, had no chance Of eseape-
These are the categorical statements TO US, and they are In
general circulation. Are they truel
The ship was consigned in Hongkong to one Aurenano Alamo.
The Captains name is Garay. Both may become celebrated
The question will probably arise in this latitude
why should the c~onsignee in Hongkong become
Is celebrated 2" We are informed that the agent in
HOngkOng simply fits the ship with provisions, a
crew and the necessary equipment of other material
for the voyage. He is an accessory before the fact
of kidnapping and forcible detention, while the party
who aids in carrying out the voyage after the Grim
inal act unless he can prove ignorance is an access
sorry after the fact. Which is the most culpable?
Now that the facts connected with the traffic in
slaves, a fitting tsrms.between Macao and South
AmeF4ca have become a matter of notoriety, we trust
That His Majesty's Government win use every en-
deavor to prevent the dealers in the { article man "
from making the ports of this Kingdom an asylum.