[…] an useful bow a skilful bowyer wrought, / Which picked and polished both the ends he hid with horns of gold.

The old kampung spirit of volunteerism is useful. But volunteers need to be organised so that in a fire outbreak, for example, they can carry out their specific roles, calmly, before help from supportive services arrive.

I have visited my quarters, and find them very comfortable.[…]Steerage is like everything else maritime[…]vastly improved since Robert Louis Stevenson took his trip third class to New York.

Keep me back, O Lord, from them who misprofess arts of healing the soul, or of the body, by means not imprinted by thee in the church for the soul, or not in nature for the body.