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CHINESE. 
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The Chinese form one of the most 
numerous and useful classes of the In¬ 
habitants, they may be estimated to 
amount to between 5 and 6000. The 
better sort of them possess valuable 
Estates, in Lands and Houses, and were 
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the first Planters of Pepper. The lower 
order exercise the different trades of 
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Carpenters, Smiths, Shoemakers, &c. &e. 
they arc Labourers and Fishermen, and 
supply the Markets with all sorts of 
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Vegetables. The wages they receive are 
certainly very high, but they are laborious 
good Workmen; and as they arc expensive 
in their mode of living, the greatest part 
of the money they receive is spent on the 
Island. Every Chinaman makes it an 
invariable rule to send a certain portion 
of his earnings annually to his Friends 
