FUKTHEH EXPEllIENCES OE MR. FRESH. 
pence, became troublesome, his fellow wbo had been 
paid eight shillings instead of seven and six would 
flare up and say he was a contentious and troublesome 
fool I “Master was big master, had given ver;^ good 
pay, and it was all right ! Eut we have almost 
unconsciously, and quite in an unpremeditated manner, 
slipped into a discussion on paying, which must be 
closed with the remark, let every one pay his coolies 
in accordance with his owui system, the one which he 
has found to answer his own views best, provided — and 
provided only — he pays them their just balance to the last 
copper ; recollect a penny, although a very small and 
trifling object to you, indeed no object at all, is a 
considerable sum in the estimation of a cooly, and even 
if it was not, he is entitled to it — it is his due — and 
none like to have their due withheld from them on 
any pretext whatever. How would an assistant like, 
when coming for his monthly pay of £8 6s. 8d., if 
indeed there are any now who would think it worth 
while to engage for such a very paltiy consideration, 
to be handed £8 6s. and told to “be off,” that, the 
coppers were not worth notice. Would he not stick up 
for his eightpence, with sturdy independence, and say 
it “ was his right ; ” and quite right too. But we 
are quite well aw^are, in present times, these remarks 
are quite unnecessary’ ; they are made in order to shew 
what the general state of matters were in the times 
of which we write, a condition which was produced 
more from ignorance of all the rules of arithmetic on 
the part of the superin den dent, and a desire to save 
trouble and bother on the part of the proprietor, than 
from any wish or desire to injure or defraud the 
.cooly. The cooly ’s habits were nob at all understood, 
his value little appreciated, chiefly because they were 
generally plentiful and easily procured, a state of feeling 
which extends to many other objects besides coolies. 
In order really to know the value of coolies, money, 
or anything else, you must have come through the sad 
experiences of suffering from the want of them ! See 
the weeds growing in such luxuriance as even to 
conceal the coffee ; see the full ripe berries split in the 
centre pulp, and the beans fall out ; see the suckers 
towering up in rank growth, all that is seen of the 
tree above a wilderness of Spanish needlej” and see 
a gang of miserable-looking creatures, with hardly a 
rag to cover their nakedness, a little distance off ap- 
proaching your estate. With what eagerness they are 
watched, as they come marching on i you actually trem- 
ble with excitement! “Are they coming here?” 
‘‘ Can this be Mutto Kangani” who has been reported 
as having been on the road with fifty men for at least 
the last three months^ but who in fact at that present 
