[20] Obsolete term revived.
[21] A converted Budhist will address his prayers to our God if he thinks he can obtain any temporal benefit by so doing; but if not he would be just as likely to pray to Budha or to the devil.—Baker’s “Rifle and Hound in Ceylon,â€� page 85.
[22] If the reader will refer to the “Times� of the 29th of September, 1854, he will perceive that a liberal collection was made at St. James’s, Piccadilly, for the Borneo Mission. In the same journal, three days earlier, the police magistrates express their regret that want of funds compels them to deny assistance to surviving sufferers from the cholera! All have, of course, a right to do as they like with their money; but after the hat had passed round at St. James’s, I should have liked to have seen its liberal contents transferred at once to Bermondsey instead of to Kuchin. And for this reason, that I know, from personal experience, that my old friends the Dyaks are as fat and sleek a people as any in the world, well fed, well housed, and free from disease, whilst the stomachs of those at Spitalfields, charitable sir, are aching with the hunger that drives man to crime!
[23] Rich deposits were discovered, but I am not aware of the value of the quartz generally at Carson’s Creek.
[24] Our object was still only to experimentalise.
[25] The reader will perceive the bitter irony conveyed in this expression as contrasted with the complimentary one of “some pumpkins.�
[26] The best use to which an India-rubber sheet can be put, is to protect during the day that part of the ground on which you sleep at night.
[27] Since this was written, an election has taken place, calculated to give satisfaction to the Reform Party.
[28] A little paper called the “Sun� deserves great credit for the courage with which it has attacked existing abuses!
[29] I beg to forestall the remark that may here be applied to me, that I am myself a know nothing, and defend the sect from fellow-feeling.