156 Dr. Heifer's Fourth Report [No. 98. 



There is much difference between tropical colonies and colo- 

 nies in the temperate zone ; both sets have their particular 

 advantages, and disadvantages. Tropical colonies can only 

 be established by men who are wealthy, or who possess 

 moderate capital to begin with. They employ either the 

 natives of the country in which they settle, or they import 

 foreign labourers. * * * 



As the stream of European enterprise will turn towards 

 India, it is necessary to direct it into the most safe channel, 

 and the following paragraphs are written for the purpose of 

 pointing out the different very great advantages which the 

 provinces of Tenasserim possess, containing all that is requisite 

 to transform them into an European tropical colony able to 

 prosper in an eminent degree. 



In every colony the new comer finds the country either a 

 waste or occupied ; and if occupied, it is occupied either by 

 temporary tenants, or a fixed population. 



Temporary tenants do not make use of the ground perma- 

 nently ; they are tribes of hunstmen, or graziers, or people 

 who resort to certain places for the sake of a particular sponta- 

 neous production fit for their own use, or for exchange. 



A fixed population makes use of the ground as the source of 

 their livelihood. 



The Tenasserim Provinces contain all these divisions com- 

 bined. A great, and the greatest portion is a waste ; part of 

 it is used on account of its teak forests, or sapan-wood jungles, 

 or wood-oil trees ; other parts are resorted to exclusively on 

 account of a productive fishery ; others, on account of the rocks 

 producing edible birds' nests ; the smallest part of it is occupied 

 by permanent dwellers, engaged in cultivating the ground. 



I. The first great advantage which the Tenasserim Provinces 

 offers, is the abundance of lands of every description. 



An obstacle which has been found in most of such un- 

 civilized countries is, that the inhabitants come very soon into 

 collision with the new comers. 



This can happen only in countries like America, where the 

 population subsisted upon the produce of the chase. 



In Tenasserim this would not be the case, for no part 





