CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10] — Page 283

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own

that they find it to their interect to be comparatively honest, and trustworthy, so long as they remain in the service . A contrary course would inevitably lead to detection and punishment . 173.

The following paragraph

from Norvill's work on Mauritius

some idea of

the

on the

the variety

will give difficulties consequent

of Race and Language, that

had to be overcome

by the

authorities there in inaugurating

efficient Police service . "Of

an

races. into

the three primary which ethnologiets have divided the inhabitants of the world

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"Caucasian, Mongolian, and Negro, Mauritius has representatives

of all but chiefly the last two ; and adopting

the

Commer

Classification of languages, there are families blonging to four out of the six stocks, more or less sporen, namely: Chinese, Shearitie, Indo European, and African = The prevailing language among the natives of the island is larede ; a local patois of the French.

Perhaps nowhere on the surface of the Earth is there

: greater variety of race and language. Each country that touches the Indian Ocean

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