We presented the black priest with a few shillings, and the Spaniard, patting him on the head, said, with much candour, he thought his colour made no great difference.
We then returned, as fast as the ponies would go, to Porto Praya.
Another day we rode to the village of St.Domingo, situated near the centre of the island.

On a small plain which we crossed, a few stunted acacias were growing; their tops had been bent by the steady trade-wind, in a singular manner--some of them even at right angles to their trunks.

The direction of the branches was exactly north-east by north, and south-west by south, and these natural vanes must indicate the prevailing direction of the force of the trade-wind.

The travelling had made so little impression on the barren soil, that we here missed our track, and took that to Fuentes.

This we did not find out till we arrived there; and we were afterwards glad of our mistake.