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that paper to make him a better Christian. But 

 he was certain that the minister had nothing to do 

 with that, and that massa had made it all himself 

 about the Bay girls." 



January 28. (Sunday.) 

 I shall have enough to do in Jamaica if I accept 

 all the offices that are pressed upon me. A large 

 body of negroes, from a neighbouring estate, came 

 over to Cornwall this morning, to complain of 

 hard treatment, in various ways, from their over- 

 seer and drivers, and requesting me to represent 

 their injuries to their trustee here, and their pro- 

 prietor in England. The charges were so strong, 

 that I am certain that they must be fictitious ; 

 however, I listened to their story with patience ; 

 promised that the trustee (whom I was to see in a 

 few days) should know their complaint ; — and they 

 went away apparently satisfied. Then came a 

 runaway negro, who wanted to return home, and 

 requested me to write a few lines to his master, to 

 save him from the lash. He was succeeded by a 

 poor creature named Bessie, who, although still a 

 young woman, is dispensed with from labour, on 

 account of her being afflicted with the cocoa-bay, 

 one of the most horrible of negro diseases. It 

 shows itself in large blotches and swellings, and 

 which generally, by degrees, moulder away the 

 joints of the toes and fingers, till they rot and drop 

 off ; sometimes as much as half a foot will go at 



