248 PROFESSOR SMITH’S JOURNAL. 
A procession with wretched music moved round the mar- 
ket-place. We understood from the officers, that several 
curious circumstances had taken place. The governor had 
been washing the feet of some of the poor inhabitants. 
Judas Iscariot was hanged in effigy, and had received 
some hard thumps by way of chastisement, and so forth. 
The governor had invited Eyres and Galwey to dinner, an 
hospitality which proved to be rather interested, he himself 
and the noble lady, his consort, begging as presents for 
every thing they saw or could imagine to be on board the 
ship. All the provisions that are brought to market, pass 
ina manner through the hands of the governor, and_theit 
price is enhanced by the duty, which is applied to the de- 
fraying the expenses for maintaining the garrison and the 
civil government. The colony probably does not afford any 
revenue to the government, nor charge it with any ex- 
penses ; for which reason the communication with the 
mother-country is very little, or none at all. Almost all 
the inhabitants of the lower classes are black people. Eyres 
came the following morning: ashore, in order to fetch the 
remainder of the provisions, consisting of goats, sheep, 
fruits, &c. to which we added a quantity of oranges, 
peaches, &c. Captain Tuckey, Hawkey, and Galwey 
had been at the end of La Trinidad, and in another small 
barranco which is the country-seat of the governor. 
Cranch had been rambling about the plain, and shot a 
number of birds. Fitzmaurice and Galwey, on the first 
morning, had been very successful in fishing in the bay, 
but the boat was upset, by which they lost the fishes. 
