XV 

 PEOPLE 



CONSIDERED as a class rather than as indiv- 

 iduals the dark-skinned population is easily the 

 more interesting. Considered as individuals, the con- 

 verse is true. Men like Sir Percy Girouard, Hobley, 

 Jackson, Lord Delamere, McMillan, Cuninghame, 

 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 an- 

 other essentially different. The artisan and shop- 

 keeping class well on the flats; the Government 

 people and those of military connections live on the 

 heights 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 con- 

 tempt, and condescension elsewhere. They are pleas- 

 ant people, and hospitable, and some of them very 

 distinguished in position or achievement; and I am 

 glad to say I have good friends among them. 



But the native is the joy, and the never-ceasing 



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