. Timehri. In a Lime Some Home Truths. 187 With the opening up of the goldfields and the balata bush the pictureswere completed. Labour became scarcer and gradually the black popula-tion turned itself to various trades and the black-task gangs became lessand less of importance to the sugar estates as their places were filled byEast Indian immigrants, immigrants from China and from Madeira. The Villages, the properties of the old bondmen, were neglected sofar as cultivation was concerned, as more and more the adventures of alife in the bush appealed to sturdy young men, where by dint
. Timehri. In a Lime Some Home Truths. 187 With the opening up of the goldfields and the balata bush the pictureswere completed. Labour became scarcer and gradually the black popula-tion turned itself to various trades and the black-task gangs became lessand less of importance to the sugar estates as their places were filled byEast Indian immigrants, immigrants from China and from Madeira. The Villages, the properties of the old bondmen, were neglected sofar as cultivation was concerned, as more and more the adventures of alife in the bush appealed to sturdy young men, where by dint of a fewmonths really hard labour, there appeared to be greater gain than a lifeof persistent everyday industry which farming all over the worlddemands. Such a life of hard toil amidst dangers, away from such civilisationas the coast affords, brought with it the result usual to all races whichhave to toil in this way—namely, a want of thrift, a recklessness and anextravagant love of pleasure, which asks for nothing better th
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