The Monday previous, six cases came before him, in four of which the apprentices paid the money on the spot.
[Footnote A: When an apprentice signifies his wish to purchase his freedom, he applies to the magistrate for an appraisement.

The appraisement is made by one special and two local magistrates.] Before this gentleman left, the Rev.Mr.C.called in with Mr.Pigeot, another planter, with whom we had a long conversation.

Mr.P.has been a manager for many years.

We had heard of him previously as the only planter in the island who had made an experiment in task work prior to abolition.

He tried it for twenty months before that period on an estate of four hundred acres and two hundred people.