Dey come ober to see de village.

Dey see dat de houses are comfortable, dat de gardens are bery well cultivated, dat de people are well dressed, not like common nigger, dat dey are happy and contented.

Dey see dat dey no believe in fetish any more, but dat ebery ebening when de work is ober, dey gadder under de big tree and listen for half an hour while I read to dem and den sing a hymn.

Once a year I send down to de coast and get up plenty cloth, and hoes for de gardens, and eberyting dey want.

When I land here ten year ago I hab eight hundred pound.