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Excerpt from Notes on Political Economy From the Colonial Point of View "The English shipowner it is plain" (from a certain Board of Trade paper) "finds it cheaper to hire foreign labour. In 1853 only 4.4 per cent of the crews were foreigners. The proportion has risen until in 1894 it was 16.95 per cent of the whole, not counting Lascars and Asiatics, who have increased until they are about one-eighth or one-ninth of the entire number... The broad result is that in 1894 about two men did the work of seven on steam vessels in 1854, and that on sailing vessels two did the work of four. The decline has taken place chiefly among able seamen and apprentices." - The Times, 28th August 1895. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.