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immense trunk extended for buns ; and after that, 

 the saddening contrast of rusty pyramids of obsolete 

 French machinery with all the new plant proudly 

 brought over from Scotch and American yards. I 

 was also agreeably struck by the somewhat indig- 

 nant refusal of Mr Sullivan's chauffeur to accept a 

 gratuity. I am induced to mention this, not as any 

 advertisement of my own generosity, which is 

 slender, but rather as a caution to others, for there 

 are few positions more embarrassing than that of 

 the man whose "tip" is flatly declined. We had 

 quite a friendly talk on the subject, a kind of 

 mutual apology, during which he told me that he 

 had taken me for an American until I offered the 

 fatal bill ; after that, he knew that I came from the 

 other side. He was, he said, in receipt of good 

 pay from his employers, and our tour that morning 

 had been in the ordinary course of the day's work. 

 O tempora I O mores ! Why can they not make this 

 worthy young man head keeper on the biggest 

 shoot I am ever asked to ! 



In spite of a hundred ingenious labour-saving 

 devices, smaller, but not in their way less efficient 

 than the huge shovels, an immense amount of 

 unskilled labour (upwards of twenty thousand men, 

 mostly from the islands) has to be employed in the 

 work of construction. In that climate, only skilled 

 labour can be done by white men, so that the work 

 of recruiting the rest has involved the Commission 

 in some difficulty and much expense. The chief 

 source of supply has for a considerable period been 

 Jamaica, which has contributed thousands of 

 niggers under a recognised system of deposit and 

 other conditions that attach to indentured labour, 



