TRINIDAD. 
SB 
On the other hand, they are required to work every 
day when not sick, and are not allowed to leave the 
estate without a written pass, given to them hy the 
overseer or manager. As a rule, they are well condi- 
tioned, happy, and cheerful, having their own rooms, 
living comfortably with their wives and children. They 
are, moreover, allowed to cultivate a patch of ground, or 
(which they much prefer) to keep a cow or a pig. Of 
cows the Coolies are very fond, and certainly they know 
how to take care of them. It is true that, sometimes, an 
irate overseer or driver may strike a Coolie, and so may 
any angiy man strike another in any country, and irre- 
spective of their relative positions ; but there is as much 
redress for the Coolie as any one else. On the whole, I 
think it mav be said that immigration is an advantage 
and a blessing both to the Coolies and to those who 
employ them, and it would be difficult to say with whom 
the greater advantage is to be found. 
It is a fact that all the Coolies who are not confirmed 
drunkards save money, are well fed, and well clothed ; 
and it is also a fact that some have gone back to India 
with three hundred, and some with five thousand dollars 
hard cash, while many others who remain in Trinidad 
become freeholders and shopkeepers. In leaving their 
country the Coolies have most certainly bettered their con- 
dition ; and, what is of higher importance, they have 
been delivered, to a great extent, from the intolerable 
yoke and curse of caste, and as a consequence, the Coolies 
in Trinidad are in a much better position to receive the 
Gospel, with all its unspeakable blessings, than they are 
in their own country. 
Among the immigrants brought to Trinidad are about 
5,000 Chiuese. They are, of course, a distinct people 
from the Coolies. They are not so satisfactory as 
labourers ; but, upon the termination of their contracts, 
they become shopkee]:>ers, and some of them monied 
men. They are not British subjects, and must reside 
twelve years in the country, and take the oath of alle- 
