Note 122 — XIV.

J. F. Crawford, Esq., British Consul-General at the Havanna, in an official document respecting the number of Chinese imported in the course of one year into Havanna proves that in the case of the Peruvian ship Cora, 117 out of 292 coolies perished owing to bad water. In one single year (1857) 63 ships, of 43,933 tons, cleared from Chinese ports for the Havanna, with 23,928 Chinese labourers, of whom 3842, or above 16 per cent., died during the voyage.