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118 THE WHITE SLAVE MARKET
get the girls
to the houses of these men is
by drugging them and taking
them while
unconscious by night; and it must be said
that the fate of these girls is generally
very much better than that which befalls
the unfortunates who are taken to Malay
Street or to the Chinese quarter in Hong-
Kong. But if there is a child the girl's fate
is very sad, as she and her offspring are very
much despised, and they are often both murdered
and put out of the way. Mr. Willis
sketched a picture of a beautiful Italian girl
who had been brought to Burma from Europe,
on order. She was quite beautiful, an Italian
who had been sold to a native man. When
she had a child she was put into native dress
and thrown out into the compound among
the servants. The sketch drawn from life
is reproduced on the outer wrapper of
this book. It is a strange picture of a
beautiful white girl with a half-caste child
in her arms living in an alien community
an outcast and wretched, having almost for-
gotten her native tongue.
" A very well-known "pimp trapped her
and " married " her with the aid of a bogus
priest and brought her to the East to the
express order of the rich man to whom she
was taken ; and there she is now, discarded and
degraded. The way in which slave traders
marry girls is simply astounding, and shows
quite a genius for planning and plotting.
Once the "pimp" attracts and interests a
foreign girl who is good, he quickly sees that