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out of repair, the goods are broken & rotten, there are hardly any decent footpaths. The superior coloured gentry ride about in sedan chairs & they comport themselves with a stately magnificence that denotes the aristocracy of colour as compared with the common black trash. There was a public washing place at the foot of a rocky cliff & here the women were rubbing out their clothes with flat stones. On the whole the poor people were a happy lot of codgers & had unbounded faith in the spending proclivities of the Australians. And they had a lot of the characteristics of the whites. I saw a
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