118 TRAVEL, ADVENTURE, AND SPORT. 



Their schools are supported by a two-thirds donation 

 from the German Government, and one-third from 

 the colonists. 



If these excellent people can look back only upon 

 struggles, privations, and hardships, they have now 

 the satisfaction of looking round and observing the 

 wonderful change which their presence has effected 

 upon the neighbourhood. They can point with pride 

 to their clean, trim village, running back in two streets 

 from the sea to the base of Carmel, with its double 

 line of shade-trees, its neat little gardens, and com- 

 fortable houses, looking, by contrast with the native 

 bazaar, like some rare exotic transplanted to a foreign 

 soil They can look at the substantial houses which 

 have sprung up between the colony and the town ; as 

 capital has been attracted during the last few years, 

 they can see not only their own land, which they are 

 constantly improving and draining, giving evidence of 

 the care which has been bestowed upon it, and their 

 terraced vineyards and increasing flocks, but they can 

 see that their example is being imitated by the na- 

 tives, who are adopting their better methods of agri- 

 culture. They can point to the fact that land has 

 risen more than three times in value since their arrival; 

 that the statistics of the port show a constantly in- 

 creasing trade ; and that, so far from having excited 

 a feeling of hostility among the natives, they are uni- 

 versally respected, and often co-operate with them in 

 their agricultural labours on terms of perfect harmony. 



