We demoralize and we extirpate, but we never really civilize.

Whether the Dutch system can permanently succeed is but doubtful, since it may not be possible to compress the work of ten centuries into one; but at all events it takes nature as a guide, and is therefore, more deserving of success, and more likely to succeed, than ours.
There is one point connected with this question which I think the Missionaries might take up with great physical and moral results.

In this beautiful and healthy country, and with abundance of food and necessaries, the population does not increase as it ought to do.

I can only impute this to one cause.

Infant mortality, produced by neglect while the mothers are working in the plantations, and by general ignorance of the conditions of health in infants.