Mr.C.said, that in many respects there had been a great improvement since the abolition of slavery, but, said he, "I abominate the apprenticeship system.

At best, it is only _improved slavery_." The obstacles to religious efforts have been considerably diminished, but the masters were not to be thanked for this; it was owing chiefly to the protection of British law.
The apprenticeship, Mr.C.thought, could not be any material preparation for freedom.

He was persuaded that it would have been far better policy to have granted entire emancipation at once.
In company with Mr.Howell, an Independent, and teacher of a school of eighty negro children in Morant Bay, we drove out to Belvidere estate, which is situated about four miles from the bay, in a rich district called the Blue Mountain Valley.

The Belvidere is one of the finest estates in the valley.

It contains two thousand acres, only four hundred of which are cultivated in sugar; the most of it is woodland.