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a vile life. She made the men
    take the children off the boat, but with great difficulty. They
    resisted, but she stood courageously, and saw her commands
    executed. After she had accomplished this, and started down the
    river, all alone, so far as any English-speaking person was
    concerned, the men, who were still deeply enraged at being
    defeated in their plans, greatly annoyed her by intruding on her
    constantly, and finally they threatened to kill her; but she
    presented as brave a front as possible, and at last took hold
    of one man who was especially insolent, by the shoulder, in an
    authoritative manner, bidding him to go out of her presence. He
    went away cowed, and they all said, as was reported to her by one
    of her attendants, 'She is not afraid'; they then became very
    superstitious at the idea of a woman taking hold of them, and
    troubled her no more.
    "The five or six Christian friends where we were staying in Canton
    all agreed that it was the most common occurrence for little girls
    to be bought and sold for immoral purposes. One of the group
    has often heard the wretched blind girls singing just under her
    window, on the river bank, and under conduct of the old
    brothel-keeper, their owner, thus attracting custom. The
    proportion of blind people in Oriental countries is much greater,
    owing to the prevalence of eye diseases and the poverty and
    ignorance of the people in coping with these, than in the West;
    and as blind girls do not bring much money when disposed of as
    wives, so they are sold in large numbers into a life of shame.
    Poor little slaves! Because they are deprived of the natural light
    of day, so they are destined never to see a ray of moral light
    enter their miserable existence! We saw three or four little blind
    girls who had been rescued, by these Christian workers, from their
    terrible fate; but these are only a few rare exceptions out of

chastity.
The official spoke of the work of the Protectorate as "Rescue work,
and that only," in so far as it dealt with women. But it must be borne
in mind that the "Protector" of women and girls was likewise the
Registrar of brothels; and that the rules and regulations under the
Women and Girls' Protection Ordinance provided, in both Singapore and
Hong Kong, for every detail in the management of brothels, even to the
granting of a permit to keep a brothel, and the description of the
"duties" of brothel-keepers. Surely this part of the Protector's
work cannot be called "Rescue work," as we are accustomed to use the
phrase.
According to the Annual Report of the Protectorate for 1893, 1,183
women and girls entered brothels with the sanction of the Protector;
and quite apart from any discussion of whether this sanction should
have been given or not, it is quite apparent that this also was not
"Rescue work."
During the same year 1,034 women and girls left the brothels of
Singapore, and it is apparent that we must look among these mainly for
rescued cases. Of this 1,034 the following account is given:
  Absconded                  63
  Died                       21
  Gone to "Private Houses"  346
  Married                    69
  To be accounted for       451
We have an explanation in the Protector's own words of what is meant
by a girl who has "absconded." "It is common now, when an owner
notices one of her girls contracting a continued intimacy with a male
visitor (and therefore to be suspected of