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A ViSlT TU THE INDIAN ARCHlPELAOa 



iln Hiimc into port, tlnjj't; must be sometJiing rotten in 

 Uieii" argosies, 



merchant/' liko ''n pirate/' must be defined. In 

 Eiigl*ajid, the term bespeaks position, and respectability. 

 Hot so, necessarily, in the East. The old Dieu at the 

 corner of our streets^ with whom ragged uixhius lay out 

 their halfpence, might style themselves hot-potato and 

 roasted-apple merchants," at Sincapore, Anybody who 

 does anything in the way of business, if he can but write 

 his name, is a merchant ; and especially when au 

 addi'eas h getting up by agitators of clastic conscience, 

 content to procure an array of demons tr ants uumerous, 

 if not aelcct. 



" I do follow here in the chase not like a hound 

 tliat hunts, but one that hlls up the cry.'' — Both tlie 

 constitution and the number of Ui\ Hume*s fcjincapore 

 pack calls this to mind* 



As regards, however, the real mercantile community of 

 8incapore, it is nowhere surpassed in respectability. To 

 many of its members 1 am personally indebted for 

 friendship and hospitality, which I have pleasure in 

 acknowicds^ing — 



TliJit sought 114 m!Cl]jj>un4»c and mat with UdOC, 

 But in the Avicll ofkcart i^itL wljk>li ii i-iitnc, 

 Haw I exiMitimt'd " 



at Sincapore ; and, simply from my own knowledge of 

 them, I could have ct)ufiduntly flenied tlmt the addi^ess 

 whidi Mr* Hurao displays, is signed by juam/ members 



