A DRUNKEN DUTCHMAN RESIDENT IN ENGLAND Is but a quarter-master with his wife.

The resident at Kottah, Captain Burdon, was an intimate friend of Dr. Sprenger's, who had previously acquainted him with my speedy arrival.

After listening to some strange and amusing stories about Borneo, where the Resident had been Superintendent for twelve years, we took our leave.

The residents were people who preferred quiet and beautiful scenery to everything else.

More than nine hundred residents of Norfolk Island are descendants of the mutineers of the British ship Bounty.

Its residents were principally married folk and children under sixteen.

"Rumour hath it that Sandy Seaver's Sunday trips out of town mean business, and that a certain bright resident of Geneseo will shortly become Mrs. Sandy.

" The Resident was, so far as Lady Mary was concerned, an ill-conditioned fellow.

[Footnote 21: The British Resident at Venice at this time was John Murray]

The resident within is the ecclesiastical head of two separate hamlets lying at some miles' distance from his own parish.

" Finally, it appears from Dr. Eaton's studies that the last residents of Machu Picchu itself were mostly women.

The present Resident is a strenuous advocate for the abolition of all duties, at least for a time; and should the representations made by him, and other persons well acquainted with the character and resources of the surrounding countries, succeed in inducing the Government of India to render Aden a free port, it would soon become the queen of the adjacent seas.

The scene of Mr. PETER BLUNDER'S book is laid in tropical Jallagar, where the British Resident was keener on cats than on his duties.