On being asked if he had any trouble with his, he said, O, no! his apprentices did quite well, and so did the apprentices generally, in the Plantain Garden River Valley.

But in _far off parishes_, he _heard_ that they were very refractory and troublesome.
The custos testified that the negroes were very easily managed.

He said he had often thought that he would rather have the charge of six hundred negroes, than of two hundred English sailors.

He spoke also of the temperate habits of the negroes.

He had been in the island twenty-two years, and he had never seen a negro woman drunk, on the estate.