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san and to lationd exercise during the day; he

-nsequently swelters during

it in his barrach room,

inactivity,

the greater portion of

state of drowng

vity, the practical results of which are in no bay conducive to his health or phyarrel reparity for prolonged Indian service. The Exflich soldier dit & a genval rale saves money only when he cannot find an opportunity to spend it, and when

the opportunity comes,

what has been thus saved

too frequently all gone in one grant bout of excess : with Chinamen, exlisted as soldiers, and serving in Fadia, the chief hing they would hink

of would be the

saving of money, partly to remit to their gelatives partly looking forward to the time when their agreement trould expire, and the able to revoort hair native villages, with the

hey

Woul

This

accumalater proceeds of their frugality. propensity the part of the lower order of the Chinese to save money, operates powerfully agarzan

their giving way to those habits which at so

rit