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service. In fact, but for their effeminacy, they in 

 many respects resemble the Zulus in obedience to 

 control, who, although black, are the most perfect 

 representatives of Mark Tapley's easy going 

 character that, I have ever come in contact with. 



Whether the advent of white men among- this in- 

 teresting race would not change all this, it is im- 

 possible for me to say, but any alteration for the 

 worse, I should be disposed to place to the misdeeds, 

 dishonesty, and overbearing of the immigrants. The 

 Mantatees, those people that joined my camp soon 

 after my arrival there, have on the other side to be 

 controlled with a strict hand, and from the outset of 

 your transactions with them, given to understand 

 that, the white man intends to be master, that their 

 fidelity will be appreciated, and the reverse conduct 

 meet with the most condign punishment. 



On settling in a new country, there are at first no 

 understood laws, no scale of penalties for miscon- 

 duct, no prisons, no police ; thus the settler has to 

 act upon his own responsibility, but in acting let him 

 never lose his temper, and try to impress the de- 

 linquent with the belief that it is with sorrow he 

 causes the transgressor to be punished. He who 

 acts otherwise will soon find that he has raised a 

 hornets' nest about his head, that will only be set at 

 rest, by his leaving the country, and it will probably 

 take considerable exercise of ingenuity to do that 

 in safety. 



