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people there was a vice less to combat among them. 

 They were generally decent in their manners, and their 

 appearance was very prepossessing. The men were all 

 well clcd, in Spanish straw hats, trousers and a loose 

 upper robe; and the females were also gracefully attired 

 in flowi ig drapery, and their hair carefully arranged. In 

 all the scattered settlements Mr. Hynes remarked a 

 degree of comfort and cleanliness that it would be in 

 vain to look for among other Indians ; their houses were 

 all neat and commodious and their grounds tolerably 

 well cultivated — sufficiently so perhaps for their wants. 

 Coffee, sugar-cane, plantains, yams, cassava, maize, and 

 a variety of vegetables were observed growing. They 

 also raised great quantities of feathered stock. They 

 expressed the juice from the cane by a simple machine, 

 and from it made a liquor like spruce beer; if this were 

 to be introduced among other Indians they might be 

 weaned of their liking for rum. They also cured fish, 

 particularly the querriman, so much sought after in the 

 colony." 



If this is a fair representation of the results of the 

 Spanish system, it is certainly a great improvement 

 on that of the Dutch, which virtually made the pro- 

 te6led tribes dependent, instead of encouraging them 

 in self-reliance. So bad were the results that, what with 

 the removal of most of the incentives to industry, and the 

 issue of rum as part of the supplies, thii poor children of 

 the forest became fewer in number every year. 



Like HiLHOUS:, Schomburtk depioied the sac con- 

 dition into whic. those who li 'ed neai the coast had 

 fallen, and in December 1838, Governor LlGHT m ad- 

 dressing the Courc of Policy saia : — 



