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vessels, perforated at the bottom with a number of small 
holes, through which the molasses gradually drain off, 
After remaining in these vessels until thoroughly dry, the 
sugar is packed up in bags for the market. 
“The cultivation of the sugar-cane is very simple. 
Cuttings of the stem are laid in the ground in parallel 
furrows, then covered over with earth. In à short time, 
young plants shoot up from the joints. - The ground is kept 
well weeded, and in the course of twelve months, the crop 
is ready for cutting. On many estates, however, perhaps 
on the greater number, instead of planting the cane in this 
manner, they content themselves with the easier, but less 
effective method of dressing the shoots which: naturally 
spring up from the old stumps left in the ground on cutting 
the former crop. 
— * Being limited with respect to time, we found it impos- 
sible to prosecute our journey farther than Port-Souillac. 
We therefore agreed to return, and left Mounerou's after 
breakfast. On our way back to Jacoté, I observed several 
clumps of Hernandia sonora, and Scevola Kenigii skirting 
the shore. We arrived at M. Etienne Boulger’s, the Civil 
Commissary, to dinner. It was this gentleman who was 
carried off by the boats of the Nereid. He was afterwards 
exchanged for twelve or fifteen seamen, and speaks in the 
highest terms of the handsome treatment he experienced 
during his detention. M. Boulger is one of the richest 
Planters in the island, his establishment of slaves amounting 
to upwards of six hundred. His house is built on a high 
platform which slopes rapidly towards ‘the shore on ne 
side, and on the other to a small river which runs through 
the plantation, and discharges itself into the Bay of Jacoté, 
at the distance of a few hundred yards from the house. 
The stunning noise of the surge rolling over the reef is 
Softened by a thick grove of native wood, which at the 
Same time conceals from view the agitation of ves acm 
Another object, still more offensive, is concealed from x 
eyes of the stranger by the removal of the slave cantonmen 
to the centre of the plantation. This judicious arrangement, 
