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“...toch zoo ver niet van elkander gelegen zijn.
De heer W. van Goltstein: Ik vraag het woord voor een per-
soonlijk feit.
i) Suriname in des zelfs tegenwoordig en toestand door een en inwoner aldaar-
Amst. 1823.
>) Since the year 1838 immediately after the aholition of slavery, the
attention of the colonial Government was called to the necessity of increasing
the labouring population, and every effort had been made since that period
to carry this into effect, both from the coast of Africa and of Asia and
China; but upon the whole, up to this time, as regards any sensible effect
upon the native population, or the increase of exports, immigration must be
said to have proved a failure, for after an expenditure of upwards of half a
million of money Ls. 500,000 (f 6 250 000), we have imported at that cost about
15 000 souls.
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