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than many countries situated in iugher latitudes ( which , by the way , is easily accounted for from local causes » ot necessary now , to state ); when it is known that the fertility of its soil is such that , with even very moderate cultivation , twenty millions would be far from sufficient population ; when , further , it is taken into consideration
that it abounds with many of the most valuable metallic and mineral productions , twenty millions more would find more titan sufficient employment , in their extraction from the earth ; and that ,, if cultivation and domestic industry were carried to the height in which
they are in the neighbouring provinces of fhe Chinese empire , one hundred nainion « would enjoy a comfortable existence : * I say , when all the foregoing facts , as I may call them , are brought to View , it would , I should think , be rather difficult for some of Mr * . Malthus ' s caost rational admirers
to prove his assertion , or rather leading principle , that in all countries population presses hard against the means of subsistence , ( except they explain it to mean the actual , not
pos-* I have been to China and been much © Pr shore , and have been very intimately conversant with the Chinese , who are found in the Archipelago , and I am enabled , to contradict Mr . Malt bus's assertion most completely as to their poor habits of living , and all the other doctrines be builds , as usual , on false
premises . They are , on the contrary , the most luxurious people of Eastern Asia , and , at the same time , the hardest workers ; and the poorer class of them who come from China , as labourers in the mines , are bent on saving every mite for the purpose of returning as soon as they
have amassed a small sum ; yet even thisse people will think themselves starved if they cannot live as , . well as Europeans ; and three of . theni will consume as much provision ^ , and of a xnoxe nutritive sort , than any five of the natives , and also perform their work in' rather a superior
p roportion . This conduct forms but an indifferent support to the assertion , that they are habituated to starvation . During a stay of several months at Canton , and going on shore every day , I saw but one ** dkUd exposed , and as k was m the river , it is -uncertain vrhetber it bad not fallen out of make of $ iz floating hvust * .
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ziirie weaos , which would aEQOuutjk as much information a $ that two ^ two make four , > and hi « ieatt instil tions , sjtichas tlespotissn ^ anarchy ^ slavery in polities , and bigotry , j ^ lerance , superstition and ignorance iu religion , are but a ^ a feather fr * ^ scale compared with the misery resulting from the laws of nature , that is , the laws of God .
J- C . R . P . S . Islands of Bally and Lomdoch The first separated from the east tui of Java , by a narrow strait ; and the latter separated from the east of Batty by another strait : both these straits , with that which divides Lomboch from Lumbawa , the next island to the east
ward , are much used by the European and American ships , as also those from Hindostan , bound to CUiaa diuv ing the N . W . monsooa , and by those returning from thence during the S . E . monsoon . After the triumph of Islam * ism over Hinduism in Java , its relics
found an asylum in those two islands , where they have held out against the Mussulman power to this day ; but they , however , tolerate Mahometan ism and its professors under their government . The two islands are well
cultivated Mud very populous , and the inhabitants more civilized than any other people of the Archipelago , ex * cept the Javanese ; and were the five princes , who hold the government of those islands , to be united amoBgat
themselves , no other native government would be able to withstand thek power , for even singly they make themselves respected by their neigh * boyrs . I touched there on the Jaat voyage , and being invited to see the
Rajah in his capital , happened at Ihc same time to have an opportunity of seeing the two widows of a deceased uoblemau burn themselves , &mt and with hkn , agreeable to the Hindoo customs ; but the mode was ratter different , as the detail will ahew . Al >
a hill , some distance out&idethe town # in a place appropriated to those purposes , three covered platforms weue erected at about forty yards apart , and in a line with each other , and fronting tlie east , having a ftirnace about twelve feet long by ttig&t brow in front , walled to about eight or * & **
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100 C&rcw / y Rtmaxte on the Ifitfaqj Borneo .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1822, page 100, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2509/page/36/
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