In 1836 two gentlemen of Antigua, {43a} Mr.Bennett and Mr.Wood, set up sulphur works at the Souffriere of St.Lucia, and began prosperously enough, exporting 540 tons the first year.

'But in 1840,' says Mr.Breen, 'the sugar-growers took the alarm,' fearing, it is to be presumed, that labour would be diverted from the cane-estates, 'and at their instigation the Legislative Council imposed a tax of 16s.

sterling on every ton of purified sulphur exported from the colony.' The consequence was that 'Messrs.

Bennett and Wood, after incurring a heavy loss of time and treasure, had to break up their establishment and retire from the colony.' One has heard of the man who killed the goose to get the golden egg.

In this case the goose, to avoid the trouble of laying, seems to have killed the man.
The next link in the chain, as the steamer runs southward, is St. Vincent; a single volcano peak, like St.Kitts, or the Basse Terre of Guadaloupe.