COOLIE FBOSPERITY. 



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Government is doing its best to put down. Already tlie 

 Coolies have a far larger amount of money in the savings'- 

 banks of the island than the Negros ; and their prosperity 

 can be safely trusted to wise and benevolent laws, enforced 

 by men who can afford to stand above public opinion, as 



A Coolie Family. 



well as above private interest. I speak, of course, only of 

 Trinidad, because only Trinidad I have seen. But what I 

 say I know intimately to be true. 



The parade over and a pleasant sight it was, and one not 

 easily to be forgotten we were away to see the Salse, or 



