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PAST AND PRESENT. 



introduction of civilisation is accompanied by the 

 former; and as for honesty, the main aim of the white 

 man is to extract as much from native innocence and 

 ignorance as he possibly can. 



How often has not the so-styled savage said to me, 

 " You come to us and say we are very wicked, we are 

 doing wrong, and are sure to go to a place you call hell, 

 and at the same time you take to our customs, and live 

 just as we do in many of the ways you say we are so 

 wrong in; this is very strange. How can we believe 

 vou are in earnest?" 



