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34. 'hnmediately we made an appeal to the Police, to arrest that rogue of a captain;
and immediately a trial was opened', ibid.
35. 'And before binding to a contract wdth some Society, h is necessary to open
weU your eyes, because there have been many and then so many the mistreated
and the deceived by those traffickers in human meat', ibid.
36. Examples of such clubs and societies are evident in many of the case studies.
37. R. A. Cage, Poverty Abounding Charity Aplenty: the Charity Network in
Colonial Victoria, Sydney, Hale Ironmonger, 1992, p. 34.
38. ibid., p. 24.
39. ibid., p. 16.
40. GentiUi (1988) p. 5.
41. 'to find work for 85 foreigners in a country Uke this, was not too easy a thing,
especially for those who did not have the experience or the habits of the
Colony, nor the necessary training to get to work in the mines', Cheda (1979)
Vol. 1, p. 224.
42. 'When we disembarked I roamed the streets of Melboume looking for work,
but in vain. I spent some days knocking from door to door to tum my labour
to profit but everywhere I heard the reply that there was no work of any sort'.
This letter also appears in Cheda (1979) Vol. 2, p. 33.
43. Sydney Morning Herald, 8 October 1855.
44. Cheda (1979) Vol. 1, p. 225.
45. Geoffiey Blainey, The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian
Mining, Carlton, Melboume University Press, 1989, p, 87,
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