And den last week me sick and get no money, and they charge me over again, (as above) one week me sick.

Me no able for say what to call dat massa, me sure." I leave with you to make your own comments, and to do what you please with the above.

Although my chapel is L700 in debt, and my schools, one of 180 and one of 160 scholars, are heavy, very heavy on me, I cannot do other than advise my people to save every mite, buy an acre of land, and by that means be independent, and job about wherever they may be wanted.
FROM THE REV.

T.BURCHELL.
_Montego Bay, October_ 2, 1838.
The reason why I have not written to you so long, is the intensely anxious time we have had.

I feel, however, that it is high time now to address you; for, if our friends in England relax their efforts, my conviction is, that freedom will be more in name than in reality, in this slave-holding Island.