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 cuffs, like cattle, till they have learned the hard work. Many a one, on finding himself thus shamefully deceived by the newlanders, has shortened his own life, or has given way to despair, so that he could not be helped, or has run away, only to fare worse afterwards than before.

It often happens that the merchants in Holland make a secret contract with their captains and the newlanders, to the effect that the latter must take the ships with their human freight to another place in America, and not to Pennsylvania where these people want to go, if they think that they can elsewhere find a better market for them. Many a one who has a good friend or acquaintance, or a relative in Pennsylvania, to whose helping care he has trusted, finds himself thus grievously disappointed in consequence of such infamous deception, being separated from friends whom he will never see again either in this or in that country. Thus emigrants are compelled in Holland to submit to the wind and to the captain's will, because they cannot know at sea where the ship is steered to. But all this is the fault of the newlanders and of some unscrupulous dealers in human flesh in Holland.

Many people who go to Philadelphia entrust their money, which they have brought with