\ntiy heeome lucrative : ilm^, Ihey are 

 carpenters, blackumitljs, niechanit^ti, 

 jenfellers, plaiiterit, gardncrs, servants, 

 sawyers, iiiat«tiii?«p boatmien, scaiitent 

 fihlpuvrijcrifj Mei'chaiits and petty 

 traders £Sec. Ac, Almost all the Clii* 

 he I nog;, to secret sucieLie:?, which 

 tNe Earopeanst da iiyt as yet knaw 

 ^vell : llic clficf of eauh Society Uas^ aii 

 nbsolute fuifver over all the members 

 poz^SGs^eH a pciliee t>f tti^ nwo, to exe- 

 iiutG his I) id era even tlie tf^tt tenet: of 

 death : hI] the members of the society 

 ube^ blindly thh great chief, who 

 happens sometime to tH* a very poor 

 mijn. Thejic Secret i^oeieties, called 

 Kfing^spc nr Hiiey^i, have at their dis* 

 posab ctuiiitidariihle Iniids^ and ivhen one 

 of their members U brought before the 

 Court or the I'olice, they upare no- 

 tbiu|,' to take biui out of iruubte; ihef 

 either bribe the agents of the Police* 

 or the most infliieiiilal metnbers of the 

 Soctety solicit liis pardon and ball 

 him to a large amount of money, if 

 required. Tlie,se Sod c tie i, tstroogly 

 Cimstitutcd, Trill 'lot admit any appli*- 

 caiit iiitij their body, unless he has 

 flrHt ^dergone triaU : thu!^, as it Is 

 Haidt the applh^ant mu^t drink of the 

 blood of one of the associates before 

 heiii;^ admitted to take hh oath of 

 lidelUy to tlie societv^. Secrecy is an 

 absidute \&w^ and penalty of death ig in- 

 flicted on l^in) who would violate it* 

 The^e Secret Budtitiu^i, hostile to eacc 



