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 

 in a manner through the hands of the governor, and their 

 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, nof charge it with any ex- 

 penses ; for which reason the communication Avith 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 

 harranco 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. 



