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fed agricultural labourer, from quitting the scenes 
of his purgatory, and from finding, scattered over 
earth’s surface, spots where he may enjoy a com¬ 
parative paradise, heightened by the memory of 
privations endured in the wretched hole which he 
pleases to call his home. But nostalgia is a more 
common disease than men suppose, and it affects 
none more severely than those that are remarkable 
for their physical powers. A national system of 
emigration, to be perfect, must not be confined to 
solitary and individual hands, who, however 
numerous, are ever pining for the past. The 
future will organize the exodus of whole villages, 
which, like those of the Hebrides in the last 
century, will bear with them to new worlds their 
Lares and Penates, their wives, families, and friends, 
who will lay out the church and the churchyard 
after the old fashion familiar to their youth, and 
who will not forget the palaver-house, vulgarly 
called pothouse or pub. 
Few of these Lestrigons lack fish, which they 
catch in weirs, fowl, flesh of dogs, goats, or sheep ; 
cattle is a luxury yet unknown, but the woods 
supply an abundance of Nyare and other “bush- 
beef.” They also have their special word for the 
meat-yearning. Still in the semi-nomadic stage, 
they till the ground, and yet depend greatly upon 
the chase. They break their fast (kidiashe) at 
6 a.m., eat a mid-day meal (amos), and sup 
