In most of the schools there seem to be no play hours on school days. When play hours are allowed these are from half an hour to two hours. At about a dozen schools only is there any out-door work combined with instruction. The largest amount of this work is given in the Natal and Canadian schools. Out of the whole number there are only nine schools at which there is any attempt made at combining the elements of physical education with the school instruction, and even where this is done the measure is partial and inefficient, being confined to a few exercises or simply to bathing. The obvious physiological necessity of engrafting civilized habits on uncivilized races gradually through the means of systematic physical training appears to be nowhere recognized, except at New Norcia (Benedictine) school, Western Australia, on the return from which there is the following very important statement:―Gymnastics are stated to be necessary to prevent sickness, and the reporter proceeds, “The idea of bringing savages from their wild state at once to an advanced civilization serves no other purpose than that of murdering them.” And the result of the out-door training practised at this school is said to have been hitherto successful “in preventing the destructive effects of this error.” [Sidenote: Appendix II. p. 62.] Confinement appears to be peculiarly injurious to the aborigines of South Australia, for the Governor states that he “almost always finds it necessary to release prisoners before the expiration of their sentences, as death is apt to ensue from any prolonged confinement.” Even partial confinement in schools, he thinks, injuriously affects the native constitution. Another very important observation bearing on the necessity of careful consideration of habits is recorded on the return from one of the Natal schools. It might be supposed that one of the most obvious duties in bringing native children to school would be to clothe them, but nevertheless clothing an uncivilized child requires care.† In their natural state they expose themselves to torrents of rain which, runs off them, and they are easily warmed {8} and dried at the hut fire. But it is stated that, when clothed in flannel and jersey, they get chilled by the rain, and that pulmonary diseases ensue as a consequence. † People have been asked to assist in making clothing for the Kaffir tribes whom missionaries were going out to address, that the feeling of decency might not be offended in addressing the naked.