They appear peculiarly to reverence and desire intellectual attainments.

They employ, occasionally, children who have been taught in the schools to teach them in their leisure time to read." "6.

I think the partial modifications of slavery have been attended by so much improvement in all that constitutes the welfare and respectability of society, that I cannot doubt the increase of the benefit were a total abolition accomplished of every restriction that has arisen out of the former state of things." During our stay in Kingston, we called on the American consul, to whom we had a letter from the consul at Antigua.

We found him an elderly gentleman, and a true hearted Virginian, both in his generosity and his prejudices in favor of slavery.

The consul, Colonel Harrison, is a near relation of General W.H.Harrison, of Ohio.