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hear the Motherland spoken o£ depreciatingly and ungratefully in 

 the Colonies? "What little interest again, do most Dutchmen show 

 in Colonial matters? 



Thanks to the circumstance that young people in England are 

 not unnecessarily crammed with all sorts of learning, but try to 

 acquire what is useful for a definite sphere of work, so that most 

 of them are behind other nations in so-called general development 

 they have always time for healthy exercise, for their "sport," and 

 thus become accustomed to privation, are strong, hardy, enterpris- 

 ing, sober, and little given to sensual enjoyment, pleasure-seeking 

 or excessive sentimentality. 



Thus in different English Colonies may be seen how old and 

 young, high and low, ladies and gentlemen, and even natives, take 

 part in this "sport," and how the courage, strength, agility, dext- 

 erity and "pluck" of their European rulers excites the admiration 

 and especially the sympathy of the Natives. 



Indeed the intercourse between the higher and lower grades in 

 both the official and military classes is quite different to what it is 

 with us. There is much more mutual confidence and comradeship 

 in it, more good nature, if I may so speak. The same may be 

 observed in the intercourse with the Natives. There is one law 

 for all without distinction of race or religion, and it is quickly 

 acted upon. 



Good officials in the Straits are kept as long as possible in the 

 same posts, and when they go on leave, which occurs frequently 

 (so that they keep touch with the Mother-couDtry, and do not be- 

 come Indians) the post is generally filled up by an actio g officer 

 until they return. They are thus altogether intimate with the 

 duties attaching to that post, and are quite absorbed, in the interest 

 that are entrusted to them, which they can and often do watch 

 during their leave, Erom 1878 to 1889 there was one Itesident in 

 Perak, 8ir Hugh Low, and from 1885 to 1890, I knew four different 

 Besidents in the much more important Eesidency of the East Coast 

 of Sumatra; they had no time to become duly acquainted with the 

 country. 



In conclusion, I must finish with a word that has no direct bear- 

 ing upon the subject under discussion, but which, I feel, I must 

 not leave unsaid. 



The same policy that Sir E. Weld described as the goal to be 

 aimed at on the Malay Peninsula is consolidating itself also in 

 North Borneo, in New Gruinea, and is surrounding our Archipelago 



