The half-breeds from the neighbouring coast of Venezuela, a mixture, probably, of Spanish, Negro, and Indian, are among the most industrious; and their cacao plantations, in some cases, hold 8000 to 10,000 trees.

The south-west corner of Montserrat {204} is almost entirely settled by Africans of various tribes--Mandingos, Foulahs, Homas, Yarribas, Ashantees, and Congos.

The last occupy the lowest position in the social scale.

They lead, for the most part, a semi-barbarous life, dwelling in miserable huts, and subsisting on the produce of an acre or two of badly cultivated land, eked out with the pay of an occasional day's labour on some neighbouring estate.

The social position of some of the Yarribas forms a marked contrast to that of the Congos.