Of this admirable system of satisfying the great need of the West Indies, free labourers, I may be allowed to say a little here.
'Immigrants' are brought over from Hindostan at the expense of the colony.

The Indian Government jealously watches the emigration, and through agents of its own rigidly tests the bona-fide 'voluntary' character of the engagement.

That they are well treated on the voyage is sufficiently proved, that on 2264 souls imported last year the death-rate during the voyage was only 2.7 per cent, although cholera attacked the crew of one of the ships before it left the Hooghly.

During the last three years ships with over 300 emigrants have arrived several times in Trinidad without a single death.

On their arrival in Trinidad, those who are sick are sent at once to the hospital; those unfit for immediate labour are sent to the depot.