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Province. The Portuguese attempt to uproot these nativegrowths, and to forcibly plant in their place an exotic civilisa-tion and an exotic creed, was foredoomed to failure. Fromany such attempt the Dutch and the French wisely abstained.
One secret of the success of the British power has been its English
non-interference with the customs and the religions of the "on-mter-
0 ference.
people.