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life' consistent with a part of
    the Chinese social system, it is absolutely the reverse in those
    Hong Kong brothels where Chinese women have to meet foreigners
    only. Such brothels are unknown in the social system of China. The
    Chinese girls who are registered by the Government for the use of
    Europeans and Americans, detest the life they are compelled
    to lead. They have a dread and abhorrence of foreigners, and
    especially of the foreign soldiers and sailors. _Such girls are
    the real slaves in Hong Kong._"

We underscore the last sentence as a most painful fact in the history
of the dealings of the British officials with the native women of
China, set forth on the authority of the Governor of Hong Kong, who,
with the help of Sir John Smale, the Chief Justice, waged such a
fearless warfare against slavery under the British flag, with such
unworthy misrepresentation and opposition on the part of the other
officials equally responsible with them in preserving the good name of
their country, and in defending rather than trampling upon its laws.
Governor Hennessy continues

    "To drive Chinese girls into such brothels [i.e., those for the
    use of foreigners] was the object of the system of informers which
    Mr. C. C. Smith for so many years conducted in this Colony,
    and which in his evidence before the Commission on the 3rd of
    December, 1877, he defend