| Description | His cough has returned with the rains and he finds church duties hard. Butscher's school is increased to 42, and rice now costs 200 bars a ton instead of 25-30 bars. The rains have brought many deaths. Dawes brought news, from his coast expedition, of Ludlam's death of 29 Jun, mourned especially by the poor.
Governor Columbine has built a new boys' school, with 100 boys, and one for Mrs Nylander's 50 girls. There are also several others and a well attended night-school for labourers, chiefly maroons. Under Columbine the Church revives and the poor are cared for. Books are urgently needed. The capture, buying and sellling of enlsaved people ('slave trade') is brisk, but 10 or more slavers have been condemned as prizes in S. L. without respect to their Spanish or Portuguese flags. The enslaved people are freed and the ships sold. |