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doring on the levee of St. Louis, or attending politic; 

 meetings, where they do a lot of mouthy oratory. 

 In no way do I make the above comparisons applicable 

 to Ulster men, for the reason that that province is 

 as far out of Ireland, and distinct from it, as New 

 Jersey is said to be out of and distinct from the 

 United States. 



Note the Connemara Irishman, with his heavy 

 jaw, his protruding upper lip and teeth, that, if it 

 were possible for them to be hid, it would be a charity 

 to hide them. The same are the characteristics of 

 these interesting animals that are to be found in every 

 rocky spur or stony kloof of our South African de- 

 pendencies. Never having associated with baboons, 

 and thus made them my personal acquaintances, it 

 is quite possible that I make errors in describing 

 their social life ; but, as far as I can judge, they are 

 an exceedingly moral people. I am not aware that 

 they require to have legal referees, for the simple 

 reason that disputes or differences of opinion seldom 

 arise between them. I have never heard of divorce 

 or elopement ever occurring amongst them. If 

 serious dissensions do not occur, trifling ones will 

 occasionally take place, for sometimes an old grand- 



