Large plats of the onion, of cocoa, plantain, banana, yam, potatoe, and other tropic vegetables, were scattered all around within five or six miles of a plantation.

We were much pleased with the appearance of them during a ride on a Friday.

In the forenoon, they had all been vacant; not a person was to be seen in them; but after one o'clock, they began gradually to be occupied, till, at the end of an hour, where-ever we went, we saw men, women, and children laboring industriously in their little gardens.

In some places, the hills to their very summits were spotted with cultivation.

Till Monday morning the apprentices were free, and they certainly manifested a strong disposition to spend that time in taking care of themselves.