The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-05-19
THE PACIFIC
SATURDAY. MA 10.

The PROBABILITY of the speedy introduction
of East Indian families into these Islands, as
q laboring class, leads us to make some remarks
on the subject of Eurasians, already alluded
to bySSno. pas we previously observed, the Eura-
slams are balf-castes in India, sprung from the
union of natives and Europeans. Most of them
are Christians. 1t should be remembered that,
besides the British, two other European Powers,
hold u footing on the Indian Peninsula, the
Portuguese at Goa, on the Malabar coast, and
the French at Pondicherry on the Koromandel
Coast. Formerly, the Portuguese held sway
over n far more extensive region of India
than that now ruled by the King of Portugal.
Consequently, the halfcaste Portuguese Chris
tians are exceedingly numerous, not only at
Goa, but also at Bombay, Calcutta, and all
over India. These people would form an ex-
cellent stock from which to draw some of our
East Indian Immigrants In the Island of
SaIseue near Bombay, the writer saw q very
interesting little community of half-caste Por-
tuguese Christians, who cultivated rice, and
lived quite distinct from the other Indians.
They are very laborious, industrious, and
honest. In many cases it is necessary to go
back several generations 10 find their first Euro
pean ancestor. Many of them still bear the
names famous in the chiyalrous times of old
Portugal-such as Cana, Dacunha, SOFA and
Albuquerque. The Portuguese is generally
spoken by them, and their form of christianity
would certainly be less Objectionable here
than Islam or the Vedas. The French half
castles of Pondieherry and Chandernagore near
Calcutta, generally speak French, and are for
the most part of the same Christian form as
the Portuguese. They are also an Industrious,
honest, sober class. The third division of
Eurasians consists of the British halEcastes,
scattered over all the three British Residences
of Calcutta (including the Upper Provinces
and Punjaub), Bombay and Madras. These
Eurasians speak English, and are for the most
part PTotestants, being consequently the most
desirable class of Eurasians for these Islands.
In the British Colonies of the Cape of Good
Hope in South Africa we have met with several
East Indian Coolies, and Malays. At Capetown
and other places, they have their own mosques,
and their own DOHdhs or priests. At the town
of De Paarle in the interior, we met the DIOHah
OF the mosque there, and drove with his son
to a neighboring town, nine miles off; who ap-
peared very well informed we also met at De
Paarle, a Hadjee, just return from the Pilgri-
mage to Mecca, ria the Levant, France and
England, who spoke English, Dutch, Hindustani,
and a little French. He was an independent
young gentleman, born in Cape Colony, of
Indian parents. Any one who has seen the
East Indians of Cape Colony must at once
perceive how advantageous it would be for
this country to possess such q class. But the
Mussulmans are very tenacious about their reli-
gion. and their Mollahs follow them everywhere,
much the same way that the priests go after the
Irish Romanists round the world. 1t might not
be pleasant to have Mosques and Mollahs and
the Law of the Koran in this country. The
Hindoos seldom leave their own country, except
the parias or outcasts, for the reason that the