. At last: a Christmas in the West Indies. Trinidad -- Description and travel. COOLIE SETTLERS. Gl stone at all, he liacl been forced to metal the way with burnt clay, wdiich, as I can testify, is an excellent substitute ; or how again he had coaxed and patted the too-comfortable natives into being w^ell ^oaid for doing the very road-making which, if they had any notion of their ow^n interests, they w^ould combine to do for themselves. And so we rode on chatting, "While all the laud, Beneath a broad and eqnal-blowing breeze, Smelt of the coming summer ;" for it w^as winter then, and
. At last: a Christmas in the West Indies. Trinidad -- Description and travel. COOLIE SETTLERS. Gl stone at all, he liacl been forced to metal the way with burnt clay, wdiich, as I can testify, is an excellent substitute ; or how again he had coaxed and patted the too-comfortable natives into being w^ell ^oaid for doing the very road-making which, if they had any notion of their ow^n interests, they w^ould combine to do for themselves. And so we rode on chatting, "While all the laud, Beneath a broad and eqnal-blowing breeze, Smelt of the coming summer ;" for it w^as winter then, and only 80° in the shade, till the road entered the virgin forest, through which it has been driven, on the American principle of making land valuable by begin- ning with a road, and expecting settlers to follow it. Some such settlers w^e found, clearing right and left; among them a most satis- factory sight; namely, more than one Coolie family, who had served their apprenticeship, saved money, bought Government land, and set up as yeomen; the foundation, it is to be hoped, of a class of intelligent and civilized peasant Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875. London, Macmillan and co.
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