As each estate guards its own stock by day and folds them by night, the fields are in little danger.
We passed great numbers of negroes on the road, loaded with every kind of commodity for the town market.

_The head is the beast of burthen_ among the negroes throughout the West Indies.

Whatever the load, whether it be trifling or valuable, strong or frail, it is consigned to the head, both for safe keeping and for transportation.

While the head is thus taxed, the hands hang useless by the side, or are busied in gesticulating, as the people chat together along the way.

The negroes we passed were all decently clad.