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sensible of the differences of rank, and perceives 

 that he is not treated as one who is made of the 

 same flesh and blood as his master. Of all the 

 better enjoyments of civilized life he is deprived, 

 as in colonial society every one gives up his mind 

 solely to the acquisition of money. In the lower 

 orders, with whom he comes in contact, he can per- 

 ceive nothing desirable, nothing to prevent his 

 regretting that independence which he enjoyed in 

 his own home, and from the fruits of his own land : 

 he is expected to forget his language ; in fact, all 

 the sacrifices are on his side. In his own vil- 

 lage, on the contrary, he lives in the midst of 

 his kindred and is respected; nor are his means 

 of subsistence so precarious as amongst the colo- 

 nists ; he is convinced that what he grows, and 

 the manner in which he grows it, are the fittest 

 for him, and the best adapted to his means, when 

 compared with what he sees the Europeans do- 

 ing, with all their vaunted intellect, as they have 

 not the advantage of knowing, as he does, the 

 nature of the soil and the climate of the country : 

 and thus he will in time adopt what is desirable in 

 his circumstances ; he will by degrees be taught the 

 value of civilization, and be able to appreciate its 

 manifold advantages, without entailing on himself 

 its miseries only. 



IV. The internal division of such native reserves 

 should be left to the tribe itself. I am well aware 

 that there exist differences of rank amongst them, 



