Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-02-13
THE COOLlE TRADE.
A Terrible story,hy. see Dnst.ser Of

A Terrible ''e'y s'.Zy. :e' n-s'.ser Of .
Mr.. o. Jackson, who was enoineer
upon the coolie transport Fatchoy, re-
lates the following in the New Orleans
Republican:
y The Fatchoy left Macao August 25..
WITH l,oo5 coolies on board. All went
well until the fourth day out. On this
day, about 3p: NJ, the cry of mutiny.
forward was raised. One of the guards
went overboard-probably thrown over
ny the coolies; the other took to the
rigging. The coolies made rush for
the chinese galley, probably to get
KNIVES: The mate and second mate
from the bridge shot into the crowd.
and wounded three of the
coolies. This checked the mu.
tiny. The officers rallied anal
succeeded in catching a number of the
coolies, and tying them by their long
queues to the iron barricades or to tho
gratings, aud driving the rest below.
About 150 were put in irons. The next
morning the Spanish captain had them
brought up; some bags of rice were
placed on deck, and the prisoners were
lala across the bags, faces down,
str'pped to the skin, and numerically
logged oy two men, keeping time with
t9elr whips, the blood flowing at every
dow, when in a short time the deck
was covered with blood. Az each Chi.
naman was logged, he was washed
with salt and water and sent below.
we arrived at Angar, Batavia, Sep.
temher 9TH, renamed there two dave.
proceeding thence to Mauritius, where
we took ON water and coal, the ship re-
naming in quarantine. From Maui
11taus we went to the Cape of Good
Hope. In all these ports the coolies
were kept below, and while coalinr
was gong on the matches were put on
and the hospitals for the sick kent
closed. The heat was intolerable even
in the open air. The voyage for the
poor coolies was one of Extraordinarily
suffering. They were logged, kicked,
cufed, and throughout treaFed with the
greatest cruelty. The filth and stencil
was something horrible. The hospitals
were not cleansed during the whole
voyage. l even venture 10 say that in
the annals Of the African slave trade ali
the horrors of the "inside passage "
never surpassed those of this Chinese
slave ship. Tho deaths on this mur-
derous voyage reached eighty, or eight
per cent. of the number taken on hoard
at Macao. The deaths doubtless were
caused by the floggings and tho horri-
bic filthy condition Of the shin. We
reached Havana December l.. We were
not put into quarantine, but proceeded
at once to discharge our cargo Of live
freight.
The vessel is, to all intents and pur-
poses, German property. She has been
chartered to the Havana Chinese I'm.
porting Company for two trips, one of
which is now fulfilled. There was on
board an individual styled, in sailor
rarlance, paper captain" He ap-
peared to be the agent of owners of the
coolies, or something like supercargo.
He had full control of the coolies
superintendent the fogging and other
punishment inflicted on the coolies
throughout'the voyage. A more meroi-
less scoundrel never raised lash.
The other captain is q German. In
the ships papers he is styled sailing
master: The first, second and third
mates are Germans. The carpenter is
German, the chief engineer is Ameri.
can, and the others are English. and
Scotch. The crew was compo:ed of
several nations, but all OF them under
standing English. There were but
two or three on board besides the
4'paper captain' who spoke Spanish.
The languages used on board among
officers and crew were English and
German, and for commanding the ship
English was used exclusively: