The overseer saw into the trick; but he could find no medicine that could cure the negroes of that intermittent sickness.

The Antigua planters discovered the remedy for it, and doubtless Mr.D.will make the grand discovery in 1840.
On returning to the "great house," we found the custos sitting in state, ready to communicate any official information which might be called for.
He expressed similar sentiments in the main, with those of Mr.Barclay.
He feared for the consequences of complete emancipation; the negroes would to a great extent abandon the sugar cultivation and retire to the woods, there to live in idleness, planting merely yams enough to keep them alive, and in the process of time, retrograding into African barbarism.

The attorney did not see how it was possible to prevent this.
When asked whether he expected that such would be the case with the negroes on Golden Grove, he replied that he did not think it would, except with a very few persons.

His people had been _so well treated_, and had _so many comforts_, that they would not be at all likely to abandon the estate! [Mark that!] Whose are the people that will desert after 1840?
Not Thomas McCornock's, Esq.! _They are too well situated.
Whose_ then will desert?
_Mr.Jocken's_, or in other words, those who are ill-treated, who are cruelly driven, whose fences are broken down, and whose provision grounds are exposed to the cattle.

They, and they alone, will retire to the woods who can't get food any where else! The custos thought the apprentices were behaving very ill.