MASTER AND COOLY. 
is necessary it should follow as speedily as possible on 
his fault. And it may be from this cause, that the 
writer has always found, when it was necessary, better 
to inflict some punishment on a cooly or coolies. The 
punishment of being kept out an hour later at work, 
and made to work, was far more effectual, and held 
more in dread, than when they were told of the act of 
having- been marked absent in the check-roll, and that 
they had been out at the working place during the ten 
working hours just for nothing. After a few days, a 
cooly would forget all about it ; not fo with being 
kept out till dark. That was a punishment so very 
practical and speedy in its operations, as to leave on 
his memory a very vivid remembrance. 
The cooly has much more confidence in his master 
now than in the olden times, and the master has 
more confidence in the cooly. They know each other 
now, which they <lid not then. It is thought the coolies 
get attached to tlieir masters, and that the same gangs 
arriving and departing year after year on the same 
estate is a proof of this, but it is not so. As a rule, 
they are, or become, attached to a master, merely be- 
cause they are acquainted with all his peculiarities, 
good qualities and bad, i hoy know )u>w to take him, 
and when to take him. That it is not the master has 
been frequently proved, in coolies continuing tf) arrive 
at, and depart from, the same estate, after their old 
master had left it. Of course, there are exceptions, but 
as a rule this has generally been the case. If the 
new master is kind and considerate, the old one is 
speedily forgotten. In fact, in this respect, they re- 
semble cats, get accustomed to, and attached to, the 
place — not the master. Even in many instances, where 
coolies have followed the master, on his leaving for 
another estate, it was quite evident thay were not 
comfortable for a long time ; they seemed unhappy, 
there was something wanting, which the pi esence of the 
old master could not supply. They wanted their old. 
neighbours ; they very much missed the bazar-man, 
for at the new bazar they could get no credit. Tdiey 
were Unknown, and not to be trusted. Then again, 
when coolies became known, as being annual visitors 
to a certain estate, they could much more easily com- 
mand creditf tliey could even leave for their country, 
and promise to pay that bazar account when they came 
back. Not only this, but, better still, they might bor- 
row money from the bazar-man. There can be no man- 
ner of doubt that the cooly becomes accustomed and 
attached to certain places. Hence the remai-k so often 
heard in planting matters, that such an estate has a 
good labour connection. . 
