is found to return the compliment each with a good story to the proof there is so much in the islands and no more a man s share of it is his share of bread and commerce like politics is here to a shows its ugly side and becomes as personal as close at their elbows in all this stands the native looking on like a child his true he and is usually silent as in a child a considerable of speech is accompanied by some power of secrecy news he his eight years of trouble in thoughts have often to be dug for he looks on at the rude career of the dollar hunt and wonders he sees these men rolling in a luxury beyond the ambition of native kings he hears them accused by each other of the meanest he knows some of them to be guilty and what is he to think he is strongly conscious of his own position as the common milk cow and what is he to do surely these white men on the beach are not great chiefs is a common question perhaps asked with some design of flattering the person questioned and one stung by the last incident into an unusual flow of english remarked to me i begin to be weary of white men on the beach but the true centre of trouble the head of the boil of which is the german firm from the conditions of business a great island house must ever be an inheritance of care and it chances that the greatest still has its chief seat in bay and has sunk the main part of its capital in the island of when its founder john caesar went over russian paper and iron his most considerable was found to elements of discord foreign be the south sea business this passed i understand through the hands of brothers in london and is now run by a company rejoicing in the name of the und fur see this piece of literature is in practice to the d h and p g the old firm the german firm the firm and among the long handle firm even from the deck of an approaching ship the island is seen to bear its signature � of cultivation showing in a more vivid tint of green on the dark of forest the total area in use is near ten thousand acres hedges of fragrant lime broad avenues them you shall walk for hours in of palm tree regular like soldiers on parade in the recesses of the hills you may on a mill house toiling and trembling there deep in forest on the carpet of clean troops of horses and herds of handsome cattle may be seen to and to one accustomed to the rough of the the appearance is of the many of them eight years of trouble in man sea captains are enthusiastic in their new employment experiment is continually coffee and both of excellent quality are among the more recent and from one plantation quantities of are sent at a particular season to the a hundred and fifty thousand pounds of english money perhaps two hundred thousand lie sunk in these magnificent estates in the expense of maintenance quite a fleet of ships must be remembered and a strong staff of captains and clerks these last mess together at a liberal board the wages are high and the staff is inspired with a strong and pleasing sentiment of loyalty to their seven or eight hundred imported men and women toil for the company on of three or of five years and at a of a few dollars in the month i am now on a burning question the labour traffic and i shall ask permission in this place only to touch it with the suffice it to say that in new and it has been either suppressed or placed under elements of discord foreign close public in where it still there is no of which the public receives any evidence and the dirty linen of the firm if there be any dirty and if it be ever washed at all is washed in private this is unfortunate if would believe it but they have no idea of keep their business to themselves rather affect to move in a mysterious way and are naturally by which they consider from men who would import labour for themselves if they could afford it and would probably them if they dared it is said the whip is very busy on some of the it is said that extra labour by which the s term of service is extended has grown to be an abuse and it is complained that even where that term is out much occurs in the of the discharged to all this i can say nothing good or bad a certain number of the many of them wild from the west have taken to the bush harbour there in a state partly or creep into the back quarters of the town to do a day s eight years of trouble in stealthy labour under the nose of their twelve were arrested one morning in my own boys kitchen further in the bush huts small patches of cultivation and smoking have been found by hunters there are still three in the woods of whither they escaped upon a and the regard these dark with extreme alarm the fourth in was shot down as i was told in that island while carrying off the virgin of a village and tales of run round the country and the natives shudder about the evening fire for the are not do not seem to remember any period when they were and regard the practice with a equal to our own the firm is among the and it must not be forgotten that while the small independent are fighting for their own hand and with the usual 