They are generally shipped to Genoa, and often to Marseilles, and accomplish the remainder of the journey to Havre or Calais by easy stages from village to village.

Thus they become a paying investment from the beginning.

This journey occupies the greater portion of the summer months; and after a long trip in the steerage of a sailing-vessel, the unfortunate children land at Castle Garden.

As the parents never hear from them again, they do not know whether they are doing well or not.
"'They are too young and ignorant to know how to get themselves delivered from oppression; they do not speak our language, and find little or no sympathy among the people whom they annoy.

They are thus left to the mercy of their masters, who treat them brutally, and apparently without fear of the law or any of its officers.