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request was to speak before the Agricultural Society, where an 
intelligent and appreciative audience of planters and agricul- 
tural experts met in a room in the Government Building at St. 
John’s. The chairman, Mr. Cowley, observing that the speaker 
was glancing at his watch in order to keep within a reasonable 
time limit, quietly captured the time-piece and insisted that I 
forget about the time,—a very delicate compliment, as it seemed 
tome. Then the writer was asked to address an annual mission- 
ary meeting at the Moravian Church in St. John’s. I had met 
the pastor, Reverend Mr. Hutton on the ‘‘Korona’’ the year be- 
fore and was glad to avail myself of the opportunity to meet his 
people. The occasion was one of more importance and dignity 
than I had anticipated. The Governor presided, accompanied 
on the platform by Colonial Secretary Watson and Captain 
Nicholson. The speakers included several negro clergymen, the 
Colonial Secretary, two white clergymen, the Governor and my- 
self. The Reverend Mr. Haines (white) of the Wesleyan. Metho- 
dist Church gave a first-rate address and the Reverend Mr. Bel- 
boda (colored) of the same church spoke with much force and a 
diction that would have done him credit before a metropolitan 
audience. The writer was impressed with the earnest bearing 
of the audience of perhaps a thousand black people and a half 
dozen whites. There was something inspiring in the absorbed 
attention of that mass of negroes as they listened to a stranger 
from that country to which so many of their fellow Antiguans 
had gone and from which such stories of abundance and pros- 
perity had returned. And so I was moved to make my remarks 
along patriotic lines related to the great war, and found the 
audience instantly responsive to every expression indicative of 
the good-will and codperation existing between Great Britain 
and the United States. I must confess that I thoroughly en- 
joyed the occasion, particularly when Governor Best concluded 
the speaking evercises by an address in which he spoke feeling- 
ly of the work of our expedition and of the debt that the people 
of Antigua owe to the United States, ‘‘whose citizens are lit- 
erally denying themselves that we may be fed.’’ When the 
financial report was read it was found that £118 had been 
raised, a very respectable sum when one considers the poverty 
of most of the contributors. 
