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there is little to be wondered at in the way they 

 ingratiate themselves amongst Eastern nations.^ They 

 live as the natives, and as a rule, I believe, remain 

 for the rest of their days amongst those they are sent 

 to convert. Their pay is exceedingly small. Protestant 

 missionaries are, speaking generally, for of course there 

 are bright exceptions, neither well educated nor gentle- 

 men. I have often wondered where so many of this 

 class of men come from. They are well paid, usually 

 have their families with them, and live in the best 

 houses to be got. They are constantly changing, often 

 leaving the country before they have mastered the 

 language of the natives they went there to convert ; but 

 as far as making converts they stand no chance with the 

 Jesuits. It may be said the Eoman Catholic form of 

 religion is more taking. Granting this, still earnest- 

 ness in such matters is everything, and whereas the 

 Eoman Catholic missionary always appears to have his 

 whole heart in his work, the Protestant missionary cer- 

 tainly does not convey the same impression. 



To return to the Kii coast. It will be many a day 

 before Europeans find anything to attract them to this 

 wild thinly-peopled locality. The great forests are full 



' A friend, well acquainted with the American continent, tells 

 me the same thing applies to the aborigines there. 



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