The crops were _in_, in season, throughout the island, and the estates were never under better cultivation than at the present time.

Nothing was wanting but RAIN--RAIN.
He said that the West India planters were very anxious to _retain_ the services of the negro population.
Dr.D.made some inquiries as to the extent of slavery in the United States, and what was doing for its abolition.

He thought that emancipation in our country would not be the result of a slow process.
The anti-slavery feeling of the civilized world had become too strong to wait for a long course of "preparations" and "ameliorations." And besides, continued he, "the arbitrary control of a master can never be a preparation for freedom;--_sound and wholesome legal restraints are the only preparative_." The Doctor also spoke of the absurdity and wickedness of the caste of color which prevailed in the United States.

It was the offspring of slavery, and it must disappear when slavery is abolished.
CONVERSATION WITH A NEGRO.
We had a conversation one morning with a boatman, while he was rowing us across the harbor of St.John's.

He was a young negro man.