This Is A Matter In Which The
Government Is Directly Interested, Since It Is By The Increase Of
The Population Alone That There Can Be Any Large And Permanent
Increase In The Production Of Coffee.
The Missionaries should take
up the question because, by inducing married women to confine
themselves to domestic duties, they will decidedly promote a
higher civilization, and directly increase the health and
happiness of the whole community.
The people are so docile and
so willing to adopt the manners and customs of Europeans, that
the change might be easily effected by merely showing them that
it was a question of morality and civilization, and an essential
step in their progress towards an equality with their white
rulers.
After a fortnight's stay at Rurúkan, I left that pretty and
interesting village in search of a locality and climate more
productive of birds and insects. I passed the evening with the
Controlleur of Tondano, and the next morning at nine, left in a
small boat for the head of the lake, a distance of about ten
miles. The lower end of the lake is bordered by swamps and
marshes of considerable extent, but a little further on, the hills
come down to the water's edge and give it very much the
appearance of a greet river, the width being about two miles.
At the upper end is the village of Kakas, where I dined with the
head man in a good house like those I have already described;
and then went on to Langówan, four miles distant over a level
plain.
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