Go on, gentlemen, we are with you; _we are all sailing in the same vessel._" Being kindly invited by Captain Hamilton, during our interview with him at the government house, to call on him and attend his court, we availed ourselves of his invitation a few days afterwards.

We left Bridgetown after breakfast, and as it chanced to be Saturday, we had a fine opportunity of seeing the people coming into market.

They were strung all along the road for six miles, so closely, that there was scarcely a minute at any time in which we did not pass them.

As far as the eye could reach there were files of men and women, moving peaceably forward.
From the cross paths leading through the estates, the busy marketers were pouring into the highway.

To their heads as usual was committed the safe conveyance of the various commodities.