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not sell, having, apparently, expectations of such large additions 
to their criminal population, that the Loyalties may be required 
for penal establishments, in addition to New Caledonia. There 
are one or two white men engaged in trading with the natives 
of the Loyalties, buying up the cotton which they grow. But 
I am afraid that it will be a long time before anything of this 
kind is done in the New Hebrides, as the natives seem greatly 
deficient in anything which savours of energy or enterprise. 
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