God knows we are trying to do it, according to our light.' If any Roman Catholic clergyman in Port of Spain spoke thus to me-- and I have been spoken to in words not unlike these--I could only answer, 'God's blessing on you, and all your efforts, whether I agree with you in detail or not.' The Roman Catholic inhabitants of the island are to the Protestant as about 2.5 to 1.

{288} The whole of the more educated portion of them, as far as I could ascertain, are willing to entrust the education of their children to the clergy.

The Archbishop of Trinidad, Monsignor Gonin, who has jurisdiction also in St.Lucia, St.Vincent, Grenada, and Tobago, is a man not only of great energy and devotion, but of cultivation and knowledge of the world; having, I was told, attained distinction as a barrister elsewhere before he took Holy Orders.

A group of clergy is working under him--among them a personal friend of mine--able and ready to do their best to mend a state of things in which most of the children in the island, born nominal Roman Catholics, but the majority illegitimate, were growing up not only in ignorance, but in heathendom and brutality.

Meanwhile, the clergy were in want of funds.