May.] 
A CUTLER AT KURREECHANE. 
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such is the power of habit that they preferred 
it greatly to our's, though much stronger. 
They have iron, found to be equal to any steel. 
A cutler at Kurreechane would be able to support 
the mission almost without any expense to the 
Society, if a disinterested man. Every knife he 
manufactured, though without being made to shut, 
would be worth a sheep, and many of these he 
could make in a day. He would instantly find 
customers among the inhabitants of the town, 
and those from other nations. A rough-made axe 
is worth an ox. 
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' It was impossible to number the houses in Kur- 
reechane, but probably the population may 
amount to sixteen thousand, it being at least four 
times the size of New Lattakoo, 
