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From: (Harry Dodsworth)
Subject: [Carib-L] Indian Emigration to St. Lucia, 1884
Date: 11 Jan 2004 07:17:02 GMT

There have been several posts here about the movement of indentured
labourers from India to the West Indies.
This note mentions a specific voyage to St. Lucia.

A Google search on Bracadaile returns several websites mentioning
Indian emigration to St. Lucia. I found this site interesting:
http://www.slucia.com/visions/2002/indian.html


Morning Chronicle (Halifax, N.S.) Tuesday, August 12, 1884

A Cholera Ship - Twenty Deaths - Gloom; Prospects for Planters

ST. LUCIA, Aug. 11

The British steamer Bracadaile, from Calcutta June 4th, arrived here
to-day with emigrants from that city. After the steamer left Calcutta
thirty cases of cholera appeared and twenty of the patients died. No
fresh cases have occurred on the vessel for twenty-nine days. She was
placed in quarantine here.
Recent advices from Tobaga [sic] state that the prospects of the
planters are very gloomy, the failure of Gillespie & Co. having
brought matters to a crisis.

--
Harry Dodsworth Ottawa Ontario Canada
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