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dark smoke browned interior of the rooms.

the

barrenness

of

the

onee

white washed walls,

the

wretched and neglected state of the few shrubs

and trees in the little

garden,

one would

hesitatingly deem the place fit for the reception

of infirms living on privato benevolence funds,

were not lepers doorned for life to this

if they

abode. Strangers

are

looked

upon

with

an

amount of curiosity, that evidently shows

their

rare

appe

carance. But half witted as

wretches appear, they

Chinamen, to give

their

age

Jen with

the

are ready, unlike all other

the wished

ма

for

details of

their circumstances, their Calamityy

an earnestness and uprightness,-

that dispels any preconceived doubts of

their veracity.

No treatment has come to my knowledge.