Even from his much-mutilated journal, we can see that he travelled with his eyes open, and that his interests were many.

As he mentioned in his journal thirty persons with whom he became acquainted at the Barbados, we infer that in spite of bashfulness he was an easy mixer.

This short journey to the Barbados marks the only occasion on which George Washington went outside of the borders of the American Colonies, which became later, chiefly through his genius, the United States.[1] [Footnote 1: J.M.

Toner: _The Daily Journal of Major George Washington in 1751-2_ (Albany, N.Y., 1892).] In July, 1752, Lawrence Washington died of the disease which he had long struggled against.

He left his fortune and his property, including Mount Vernon, to his daughter, Sarah, and he appointed his brother, George, her guardian.