138 c*orn.— /Wi, Profits and Labor. 



be obliged to craw into I lie udjainiug- territories of 

 Siam or of Perak, 



HE NT, PROFITS AND LABOn. 



That mm who liave never been .broken to the 

 yoke of servitude under Malayan rule will emigrate 

 willingly cannot be supposed, but if necessity compels 

 a choice, Pc rak will be preferred* At this very period, 

 a large party which had been allured by the fertility 

 of the land on the south bank of the Kreau river, just 

 beyond the Honorable Company's boundary, are pre- 

 paring to return and to abandon the lands they hav<j 

 cleared, for the greater safety enjoyed here. 



Such, however, is the power of habit over the human 

 mind, that shuuld Keddah ever revert to Malayan 

 rule — an event which, "as thing* now rest, is highly* 

 and perhaps, happih impr-jliaMe, — the old despotism 

 of its chiefs would be forgotten amidst the early as-» 

 sociations which would be recalled, and part of the 

 tail or older portion of the emigrants might return- 

 Jt is now fourteen years since they tied with their f,t* 

 tnilies, and the rising generation can have little at- 

 tachment to a country which a large portion of it ne- 

 ver saw, and the oilier left at too early an age to feel 

 much interest in its fate. They would soon feel the 

 difference in the protection to life anil property afford- 

 ed by the new rule, compared with the security de- 

 rived under the British flag. 



So long as numbers of cultivators here go, so 

 much as they do, on a borrowed capital, it will be 

 impossible for them to give that reut for land which 

 <he latter ought reasonably to yield by the employment 

 of unfettered exertions; nor can they lie expected, un- 

 der such cin JMisinnees, to become improvers in the 

 mode of cultivating. The extravagant or improvident 

 habits of mimy of these men, as well Hindostanee 

 as Malayan, have reduced them to ibis necessit) - t on* 



