When they first came to the school, they could not tell which was their right arm or their right side, and they had scarcely mastered that secret, after repeated showing.

We were astonished to observe that when Mr.M.
asked them to point to their cheeks, they laid their finger upon their chins.

They were much pleased with the evolutions of a dumb clock, which Mr.M.exhibited, but none of them could tell the time of day by it.
Such is a specimen of the intelligence of the Antigua negroes.

Mr.M.
told us that they were a pretty fair sample of the country negroes generally.

It surely cannot be said that they were uncommonly well prepared for freedom; yet with all their ignorance, and with the merest infantile state of intellect, they prove the peaceable subjects of law.
That they have a great desire to learn, is manifest from their coming such distances, after working in the field all day.