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along the hill, and stopped to visit one of those excellent 

 Government schools which do honour, first to that wise le^is- 

 lator, Lord Harris, and next to the late Governor. Here 

 in the depths of the forest, where never policeman or school- 

 master had been before, was a house of satin-wood and cedar 



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Coolie group. 



not two years old, used at once as police-station and school, 

 with a shrewd Spanish-speaking schoolmaster, and fifty-two 

 decent little brown children on the school-books, and getting, 

 when their lazy parents will send them, as good an education 

 as they would get in England. I shall have more to say on 



