14 BERMUDA. 



Great complaints of Tucker's cruelty were for- 

 warded by this ship, and, to justify himself, he went 

 home in December, 1628, leaving the government 

 in charge of Captain Kendall. 



The Company did not think fit to send him back, 

 but appointed in his place Captain Nathaniel Butler, 

 who sailed in July, 1619, and arrived in October, 

 with four ships and 500 men : this doubled the 

 number already in the colony. Butler gave great 

 satisfaction, by modelling his administration on the 

 principle of the Home Government. 



We have seen that disputes, while as yet their 

 numbers scarcely amounted to hundreds, composed 

 the chief portion of the early history of the colo- 

 nists. The first cultivators of the soil, being 

 , white labourers, were soon found unequal to the 

 fatigues of agriculture in a warm climate, and 

 it therefore became necessary to procure Africans, 

 These, at the time of their first importation, were 

 actually considered an intermediate race between 

 man and monkey. 



Such a doctrine, I believe, was really promulgated, 

 for the purpose of removing somewhat of the dis- 

 gust which had come to prevail against the traflBc 

 of buying and selling our fellow-creatures. There 

 T/ere at this time, and long afterwards, as is well 



