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another outlay becomes necessary. That this was 

 the best line of conduct to adopt, most persons, on 

 reflection, will acknowledge. In New Zealand, for 

 example, much of the disturbances that have arisen 

 may be attributed to the fact of so many settlers 

 arriving before sufficient preparation had been made 

 for their reception. 



Much fault has been found with Colonel Gawler's 

 "military display," as it is called ; in other words, 

 with his raising a corps of volunteers. But the 

 necessity of this may be presumed from the facts, 

 that Sir Charles Napier, the conqueror of Scinde, as 

 we learn from his own pen, refused the government, 

 because a military force was not to be sent with 

 him ; and that it has been found advisable to place 

 a body of troops at the disposal of Colonel Gawler's 

 successor. 



I paid a visit to the port, distant from the town 

 about five miles, made easy by an excellent macadam- 

 ized road, carried, in some places, on a causeway 

 over a swamp, and forming a great and imperishable 

 monument of the Governor's enterprising spirit. 

 The port reminded me of one of the quiet mangrove 

 creeks on the North coast, except that it had only 

 one bend, changing from a northerly to a south- 

 westerly direction, which at certain times of the 

 day renders it navigable, with a fair wind, each way. 

 For instance, the sea breeze will take a vessel out 

 through the northerly part, and next morning she 

 will have the land breeze to carry her the rest of 



