Excerpt from A History of New South, Wales, From Its Settlement to the Close of the Year 1844, Vol. 2 of 2 Though the extension of geographical know ledge, and the formation of new commercial rela tions, are set forth as the ostensible objects for which this Committee was appointed, there was another object to which the Committee directed considerable attention, viz: the possibility of pro curing labourers from the smaller islands of the Indian Archipelago. With reference to this sub ject, the Committee examined George Windsor Earl, Esq, a gentleman who had been engaged during a period of five years in visiting various ports and islands of the Indian Archipelago. 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.