He would have worked all day, if I would have allowed him; but I wanted to look after my young plantations, my sugar-canes, and my fields, and, after the destruction I had just witnessed, I had everything to fear.

I proceeded to the avenue of fruit-trees that led to Tent House, and was agreeably surprised.

All were half-bowed to the ground, as well as the bamboos that supported them, but few were torn up; and I saw that my sons and I, with the labour of two or three days, could restore them.

Some of them had already begun to bear fruit, but all was destroyed for this year.

This was, however, a trifling loss, compared with what I had anticipated; for, having no more plants of European fruits, I could not have replaced them.