Among them resided about two hundred thousand colonists, proud of their Saxon blood and of their Protestant faith.

[150] The great preponderance of numbers on one side was more than compensated by a great superiority of intelligence, vigour, and organization on the other.

The English settlers seem to have been, in knowledge, energy, and perseverance, rather above than below the average level of the population of the mother country.

The aboriginal peasantry, on the contrary, were in an almost savage state.

They never worked till they felt the sting of hunger.