Our ferry this time was not the back of a Chinese coolie nor a jolting ox-cart, but a spacious flat-boat made to accommodate one or two vehicles at a time.
The yamen courtyard, as we entered, was filled with empty palanquins and coolie servants waiting for the different mandarins who had come on official visits.
These readers do not read the actual words of the book, which no coolie would understand, but transpose the book-language into the colloquial as they go along.
The father was held to be a respectable man of coolie origin, but the son, long before the rebellion, had a worthless reputation.
The Chinaman settled in the Philippines under Spanish rule was quite a different being to the obstinate, self-willed, riotous coolie in Hong-Kong or Singapore.
When threatening clouds appeared a bell was tolled and the mats were instantly picked up and carried off by her Chinese coolie staff, which she managed with great skill, due, perhaps, to the fact that her three husbands were Chinese.
One may therefore assume that if the common people should come to acquire the English language, agricultural coolie labour would become a necessity.
Again, but for Chinese coolie competition, [49] constant labour from the natives would have been almost unprocurable.
Long Sin departed as stealthily as he had come, the frightful engine of destruction hugged up carefully under his wide-sleeved coolie shirt.
The coolie used to be brought to South Africa under what was termed the "indenture system," the indentureship periods being from three to five years, during which he could not leave his employer.
A depressing contrast to nature--the Indian coolie scourge--is witnessed at every stopping place in this part.
There appeared to be as many women as men with the weight-carrying poles over their shoulders, and with both sexes coolie custom seemed to forbid walking, as all moved at a trot when space permitted.
Sugar growing being the principal industry of southern Natal, the Indian coolie was imported to work in the sugar-cane fields.
The Indian coolie is tricky, treacherous, lying, lazy, dirty and repulsive.
Bob persuaded his mother to allow him to go back with the coolie who had brought the note and help to look for Nelly.
Differences in definition of what made a coolie or peasant into a soldier caused violent discrepancies in the estimates.
The Chinese overseas were for the most part men who had been kidnaped and sold in the coolie trade or who had stealthily deserted their native regions for adventure and wealth.
Apparently the coolie did not hear, for he continued on his way, with head bent and eyes cast down.
It was late in the afternoon when the captain--who had dined sumptuously on rice and his three fish--caught sight of the coolie once more.
Oshima viewed the coolie in silence for a moment; then said in Chinese, "What is your name, my man?
Then he rose, rolled up his line and deposited it in a neat packet, strung the fish upon a twig and was about to return to camp when he noticed a Chinese coolie acting very peculiarly.
I had learned from experience that argument with the coolie class did not pay, so when the demand was made I requested that the boatman accompany me to the Shen and allow that official to decide the difficulty.
Two thousand cash were given the coolie gang and I demanded a completion of the journey and met with refusal.
The next day a coolie left at our room a package of red paper slips, each two and a half by six inches, bearing three black characters.
Vessels which arrive must remain in port, for custom-house and consulate are closed, and as for loading and unloading, the lowest coolie would feel insulted if a gold dollar were offered him for an hour's work during the festal week.
Several times our cooliechair bearers mutinied, and upon one particular rainy night they gave us the slip, forcing me to send the Shen's two soldiers after them.
The coolie corps here came to the front, and, rushing into the water, held up the pontoons while the French and some English troops dashed across.
To supplement the weakness of the garrison a coolie corps of 750 Chinese was organized, and proved very efficient, and toward the end of November troops, chiefly marines, began at last to arrive from England.
That measure has prepared the way for the coolie system; and under its operations the prosperity of your islands is on the increase.
But what is the character of this coolie system, that is working such wonders?
They expected great aid, too, in their work, from the moral effect of West Indian emancipation; but that has failed in the results anticipated, and the free colored laborer is about to be superseded there by imported coolie labor from abroad.
The character of the coolie traffic is but too well understood, and is now believed by all intelligent men to be the slave trade in disguise.
I need only add, that he designates the Chinese coolie traffic as being in every essential particular 'as bad as the African slave trade,' and that he recommends its entire prohibition.
The statement was made at a meeting which met to consider the evils of the Chinese and coolie system of immigration into the West Indies and Mauritius.
It may be well to put upon record one of those extreme cases of hardship and cruelty which necessarily accompany the transportation of laborers to the West Indies, whether under the name of the slave trade, or coolie immigration.
Returning for a moment to the outbreak of the rebellion of 1868, it is necessary to refer to another sad page in the history of labour in Cuba; namely, the introduction of coolie labour from China.
A report was made to the Chinese Government, which resulted in the prohibition of further coolie emigration from China to Cuba.
Confronted by the loss of his slaves and by the prohibition of further contracts for coolie labour, the Cuban was at a loss whither to turn for help.
Here, the authorities placed the coolie on public land, obliging him to work for the municipality, and held him there until someone offered to take him under a new contract.
In those colonies where the sugar industry cannot be carried on without imported coolie labour the position of dependence upon this one industry is still more dangerous.
Roebuck has been commanded by his God," he said, "to eject the free American labor from the coal regions and to substitute importations of coolie Huns and Bohemians.
Those loads that could be divided were carried over piecemeal, the cooliereturning for the second part after taking the first across.
Luckily Sergeant Reeves was on the farther bank, and I having also crossed over, we proceeded to drive every coolie back into the river, until there was not a load left on the opposite bank.
Unluckily, the snow was still falling, and as Borradaile had all the available coolie transport, we were forced to wait till he could send it back.
From Gupis onwards we had to be content with the usual hill track of these countries, good enough for a country pony, but still nothing to be proud of; here we discarded our Government mules, and took coolie transport instead.
Borradaile was to receive all the coolie transport, which he was to send back as soon as he got across the pass, in order that we might follow with the remainder of the troops.
In the meantime, every available coolie and pony had been collected, and we calculated on being able to start the next morning, with ten days' rations for the whole force.
One coolie corps struck work, and a number of the local drivers of a pony corps and many Nepalese coolies had deserted, for a curious feeling was prevalent on the frontier that we were advancing to our doom.
Mr. White, in Sikkim, set to work to raise a coolie corps for work on the passes.
Russell in the commissary department, Mr. Stell in the cooliesupply department, Dr.
The horse cooliehad already quickly galloped back to the legation and given the alarm.
Then I sent one coolie crawling on toward the nearest mule, only ten yards away, and he soon had the noose slipped over his head and returned.
One coolie or two at the most can drag a man quickly and easily where with a chair three or four bearers would be needed.
The Chinese coolie loves a jest, and once he is on the laugh he will, unlike his English brother, be much more inclined to attend to serious teaching.
The habitual way of directing a ricksha coolie is by a sort of pantomime, and there is always a great element of uncertainty as to whether he will get to his destination even with the oldest resident unless he knows the way himself.
Chinaman, and he was not going to stop his master's train because a coolie fellow got in the way, so he put on full steam and cut him to pieces, and the village deserted the Boxer faith to a man.
We know, of course, that it is bound to be in the southern part of the state, probably even below Los Angeles, in order that the coolie boats can make their run from Mexico in one night.
And the other boats employed in the coolie traffic?
But at that very moment, the coolie smuggler who had suspected Frank of overhearing him was tipping the porter to learn to what hotel the boys and Mr. Temple had ordered their baggage sent.
I told you I overheard 'Black George' telling his companion the radio at the cove would keep in touch with the coolie boats?
Due to the crowded conditions in their country, for China you will recall has about one-quarter of the entire population of the world, the Chinese coolie learns to exist on less food than the white man and to dress more cheaply, too.
We've got the radio station at the cove completed, and can guide the coolie boats past every danger.
There are men and syndicates in California, operating ranches, fruit and truck farms, who will pay well to have a batch of coolie laborers delivered to them, and no questions asked.
I suppose, Inspector, that the breaking up of this gang of coolie smugglers is a matter of some importance," suggested Mr. Temple.
Blocks of ice are cut from the river for that purpose; and on a hot summer's day a Peking coolie can obtain an iced drink at an almost infinitesimal cost.
Primitive as these bridges are, they involve great expense and difficulty in the bringing of long poplar logs for great distances along narrow mountain tracks bycoolie labour, fifty men being required for the average log.
Not an inch would he stir till the wazir gave him a coolie to carry his baggage.
I sent on a coolie carrying the small tent and lunch basket to await me half-way.
Besides these were all the country traders moored to the south of the Pepper Box known as Coolie Bazar, extending as far as Tackta Ghât, which shared the same fate.
There were no depôts distributed about the town as there are now, and every one had to send a coolie to the Ice House for his daily supply with a blanket in which it was always wrapped up.
Next a cooliewho had gone to the river to scour vessels after a meal disappeared.
On adjacent but lower hills stood the factory and coolie lines.
Another officer drifted in and was introduced to Bertram as Lieutenant Halke of the Coolie Corps, in charge of the Kavirondo, Wakamba, and Monumwezi labourers and porters attached to the Butindi garrison.
I’m the only Bridges here,” sighed Mr. Bridges, of the Coolie Corps.
While Hall bathed, Bertram went in search of Captain Brent of the Coolie Corps.
Lieutenant Bridges, of theCoolie Corps, will give you a guide.
The Coolie who brings me my morning cocoanut, the milk of which I drink from the shell, is just now picking up leaves as big as a panama hat out in the croquet-ground.
