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The introduction of the Chinese was a necessity. One does not need to be long in the Transvaal to find that out, for the supply of native labour is notoriously insuffi- cient. It may seem strange to us that, in a country where there are millions of black people, none of whom are fitted for other than the simplest unskilled work, this kind of labour should be so expensive and so scanty. The cause lies in the comparative absence of any incentive to work. Life for them is so easy, and their wants ...are so few, that they fail to understand why they should work. For ages THE CHINESE QUESTION 89 they have existed without it, or with the merest apology for it, until the habit has become deeply ingrained in their nature. No matter what the occupation they take up, they never will keep to it for more than a few months at a time. They are never happy unless they can return frequently to their kraals, and there idle about, living in lordly opulence upon the money they earn so easily. Offering them higher wages would not make them indus- trious, but would only intensify the evil, by rendering them more independent, and so lazier than ever.
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