Abandon the present race! Methinks I hear the cry from Exeter Hall.

But the good people at home have no idea to what an extent they are at present, and always have been, abandoned.

Where the children who can be educated with success are neglected at the present day, it may be imagined that the parents have been but little cared for; thus, in advocating their abandonment, it is simply proposing an extra amount of attention to be bestowed upon the next generation.
There are many large districts of Ceylon where no schools of any kind are established.

In the Ouva country, which is one of the most populous, I have had applications from the natives, begging me to interest myself in obtaining some arrangement of the kind.

Throngs of natives applied, describing the forlorn condition of their district, all being not only anxious to send their children to some place where they could learn free of expense, but offering to pay a weekly stipend in return.