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"white Coolies".   These black Jamaican troops are dinkum soldiers, all speak English, are very polite and dignified and are loyal because they think they hate the Huns a degree worse than the British & Portugese. The local nigs. are a semi-starved race of bandits & would cut a throat for a 1d as cheerfully as they will adopt any named creed for 2 ½d . They dont like silver money (wise people!) knowing that copper does not pay the counterfeiter.   The men will undertake to do any work named & prefer that you dont state a figure - the women then are sent out to do the work while the nig. sits back & makes out a bill of costs that would shame a Pitt St shark to death.

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