Their pay, arranged beforehand, was to be one yard of calico per day: this is not much, seeing we are still so near the sea-coast.

Climbers and young trees melted before them like a cloud before the sun! Many more would have worked than we employed, but we used the precaution of taking the names of those engaged.

The tall men became exhausted soonest, while the shorter men worked vigorously still--but a couple of days' hard work seemed to tell on the best of them.

It is doubtful if any but meat-eating people can stand long-continued labour without exhaustion: the Chinese may be an exception.

When French navvies were first employed they could not do a tithe of the work of our English ones; but when the French were fed in the same style as the English, they performed equally well.