COOLIE SETTLERS. 



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stone at all, he liacl been forced to metal the way with 

 burnt clay, wdiich, as I can testify, is an excellent substitute ; 

 or how again he had coaxed and patted the too-comfortable 

 natives into being w^ell ^oaid for doing the very road-making 

 which, if they had any notion of their ow^n interests, they 

 w^ould combine to do for themselves. And so we rode on 

 chatting, 



"While all the laud, 

 Beneath a broad and eqnal-blowing breeze, 

 Smelt of the coming summer ; " 



for it w^as winter then, and only 80 in the shade, till the 

 road entered the virgin forest, 

 through which it has been driven, 

 on the American principle of 

 making land valuable by begin- 

 ning with a road, and expecting 

 settlers to follow it. Some such 

 settlers w^e found, clearing right 

 and left ; among them a most satis- 

 factory sight ; namely, more than 

 one Coolie family, who had served 

 their apprenticeship, saved money, 

 bought Government land, and set 

 up as yeomen; the foundation, it 

 is to be hoped, of a class of intelligent and civilized peasant 

 proprietors. 



Banana. 



