We soon began to meet here and there, at intervals, person going to the market with fruits and provisions.

The number continually increased, and at the end of an hour, they could be seen trudging over the fields, and along the by-paths and roads, on every hand.

Some had a couple of stunted donkeys yoked to a ricketty cart,--others had mules with pack-saddles--but the many loaded their own heads, instead of the donkeys and mules.

Most of them were well dressed, and all civil and respectful in their conduct.
Invigorated by the mountain air, and animated by the novelty and grandeur of the mountain scenery, through which we had passed, we arrived at 'Grecian Regale' in season for an early West Indian breakfast, (8 o'clock.) Mr.Bourne's district is entirely composed of coffee plantations, and embraces three thousand apprentices.

The people on coffee plantations are not worked so hard as those employed on sugar estates; but they are more liable to suffer from insufficient food and clothing.
After breakfast we accompanied Mr.Bourne on a visit to the plantations, but there were no complaints either from the master or apprentice, except on one.