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widows{o fuil ino sin there arc castes also in which mariner, properly so calied, is unknown, and as In consequence of thi~ no man knows who his own children are,
property in those castes descends not to a man's own sons,
but to his sister's sons; but none of these shameful customs is to be found amongst white men.
Even with respeet to the outward arrangements and good f their places of abode, it cannot be doubted that
If you wish to know
order© they are more civilised than Hinds. whether this is true, you have only to visit any place When your business takes you at compare for yourselves the
with the disorder of indi
where white men live. any time to any such town, good order which you sce there, villages. Do you ever sec the stree and narrow that two carts cannot Do you ever see heaps of ashes Do you ever sec their cows
t or avenue in which the
white men live so crooked pass one another in it?
and dung before their doors? lodged inside their houses 2 Do you ever see them bathing in green, bad-smelling tanks and then carrying the water of those very tanks home with them for household use? You will see no such uncivilised practices as these amongst
people who have made progress in Christianity.
The natives of this country who have embraced Christianity
being but new Christians, they have not ye Lh prevails amongst the white men, who Nevertheless,
t thoroughly learnt
the civilisation whic have been Christians for a long space of time. their own relations and people
if they arc compared with who are still heathens, they will
of their own rank in life
be found to have risen above them. ave you cver visited any of the Mission villages in which
Christianity has been established in this country, and observed