8550/12 JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE COOLIE EMIGRANTS, CALCUTTA TO TRINIDAD. CAPTAIN AND MRS. SWINTON, LONDON: ALFRED W. BENNETT, BISHOPSGATE STREET, Price Sixpence A ert liwene for gration ply to he Biker, The sre i ey) dete ~70 THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS, {wrt wow 1 Ay mERY AsoeLATED, UNIS TH WHOLE OF NY TUNSIO TIPE, Te THE eAvEE OF eoRo UANCRATION: A Brspeetfally Dedicate AMES CARTIER, Woousici, Frimery 22, 1830. .JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE COOLIE EMIGRANTS. ‘Lue British ship Salsette was chariered in Calcutta, to convey cargo of Coolie emigeants from that city to our island of Trinidad. She sailed from the Hooghly on the 17th day of ‘Mork last ; wes uader the comand of aa experienced seaman, Captain Swinton ; had an adequate body of eompeient, seilors; met with no disastar from storm or hurricane; end anived ab her destination carly in July. She emborked Coolies to the sumber of 824, infimts included, being equal to 274 edaits; and during the voyago she lost, by death, 120 Coolies ! Tt wl Yo remembered dit there was no prevalent epideinie to account for this exovssive mortality. Individuel eases of cholere end cof fever there were; but these eases were all isolated ones, and no Kind of epidemie assailed the Coolies. ‘low shall we secount for such mortality—an average of more than one per day during the entire passage? Was the Copisin a thoughtless, bold, dashing sailor, reskless of hmman lifo? Ho was the vory opposite—Kind, genorous, aad humane. ‘The luxuries of his chief exbin, the delicacies provided for his ‘wife's comfort, were dispensed with a Tiberel hand to men, women, end children, whon their state of health required them. His excellent wile, too, wes on board; snd by her constant and kindly attention soothed the sorrows, and mitigated the sufferings of many a dying Coolie. Tndeed, on board that ship, she was like enother Floreues Nightingelo ia the hospital at Seucari; and Int for the attendance snd care of this angel of mexey, humanly speaking, the mortelity, large as it was, would have been mach Jargon, But, oven apart fom the Imown Iumenity aad kinduess 0? the captain end his wife, Ukere wes another reason—always potent and influential with human nature—whieh would lead us to expect unremitting attention (o the health of the Coclies ‘The pecuniary interests of the ship's owners were at stake.