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Godstone.

24 Dec[embe]^r 1858

My dear Sir

Thanks for the manuscript which I return herewith —

It is interesting Sarawak is a low country but excellenly¹ well calculated for lowland Rice — Sarawak stays charted [?] with it — [2] Wallace misses the cause of slow progressive state of increase amongst the Dayaks[.] The tendency to extinction with this race as with all others is breeding in and in — Castigation by enforced intercourse might cure this evil — and a martial on [one word illeg.] spirits — [3] — rape of the Sabines renewed would do it — the step forward would do it — thanks for your good wishes — I am quite cheery but a man should regard the signs of death as well as of weather and as coolly —

Yours my dear Sir | very faithfully | J Brooke [signature]

Dr. Norton Shaw

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