. 138 c*orn.—/Wi, Profits and Labor. be obliged to craw into I lie udjainiug- territories of Siam or of Perak, HE NT, PROFITS AND LABOn. That mm who liave never been .broken to the yoke of servitude under Malayan rule will emigrate willingly cannot be supposed, but if necessity compels a choice, Pcrak will be preferred* At this very period, a large party which had been allured by the fertility of the land on the south bank of the Kreau river, just beyond the Honorable Company's boundary, are pre- paring to return and to abandon the lands they hav<j cleared, for the greater safety enjoyed he
. 138 c*orn.—/Wi, Profits and Labor. be obliged to craw into I lie udjainiug- territories of Siam or of Perak, HE NT, PROFITS AND LABOn. That mm who liave never been .broken to the yoke of servitude under Malayan rule will emigrate willingly cannot be supposed, but if necessity compels a choice, Pcrak will be preferred* At this very period, a large party which had been allured by the fertility of the land on the south bank of the Kreau river, just beyond the Honorable Company's boundary, are pre- paring to return and to abandon the lands they hav<j cleared, for the greater safety enjoyed here. Such, however, is the power of habit over the human mind, that shuuld Keddah ever revert to Malayan rule—an event which, "as thing* now rest, is highly* and perhaps, happih impr-jliaMe,—the old despotism of its chiefs would be forgotten amidst the early as-» sociations which would be recalled, and part of the tail or older portion of the emigrants might return- Jt is now fourteen years since they tied with their f,t* tnilies, and the rising generation can have little at- tachment to a country which a large portion of it ne- ver saw, and the oilier left at too early an age to feel much interest in its fate. They would soon feel the difference in the protection to life anil property afford- ed by the new rule, compared with the security de- rived under the British flag. So long as numbers of cultivators here go, so much as they do, on a borrowed capital, it will be impossible for them to give that reut for land which <he latter ought reasonably to yield by the employment of unfettered exertions; nor can they lie expected, un- der such cin JMisinnees, to become improvers in the mode of cultivating. The extravagant or improvident habits of mimy of these men, as well Hindostanee as Malayan, have reduced them to ibis necessit) -t on*
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