Mr.Macaulay, finding that the warmth of these debates furnished sport to the captain and other irreligious characters, was forced seriously to exert his authority in order to separate and silence the disputants.

His report of these occurrences went in due time to the Chairman of the Company, who excused himself for an arrangement which had turned out so ill by telling a story of a servant who, having to carry a number of gamecocks from one place to another, tied them up in the same bag, and found on arriving at his journey's end that they had spent their time in tearing each other to pieces.

When his master called him to account for his stupidity he replied: "Sir, as they were all your cocks, I thought they would be all on one side." Things did not go much more smoothly on shore.

Mr.Macaulay's official correspondence gives a curious picture of his difficulties in the character of Minister of Public Worship in a black community.

"The Baptists under David George are decent and orderly, but there is observable in them a great neglect of family worship, and sometimes an unfairness in their dealings.