XV. 



PEOPLE. 



/CONSIDERED as a class rather than as 

 V_> individuals, the dark-skinned population 

 is easily the more interesting. Considered as 

 individuals, the converse is true. Men like Sir 

 Percy Girouard, Hobley, Jackson, Lord Dela- 

 mere, McMillan, Cunninghame, Allan Black, 

 Leslie Tarleton, Vanderweyer, the Hill cousins, 

 Home, and a dozen others are nowhere else to be 

 met in so small a community. But the whites 

 have developed nothing in their relations one 

 to another essentially different. The artisan 

 and shopkeeping class dwell on the flats ; the 

 Government people and those of military connec- 

 tions live on the heights on one side of the little 

 stream ; the civil service and bigger business 

 men among the hills on the other. Between 

 them all is a little jealousy, and contempt, and 

 condescension ; just as there is jealousy, and 



