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week before my arrival she was found in the trash- 

 house, which she had pitched upon as the very 

 fittest place possible for her kitchen ; and there 

 she was sitting, very quietly and comfortably, boil- 

 ing her pot over an immense fire, and surrounded 

 on all sides by dry canes, inflammable as tinder. 

 This vagary was of too dangerous a nature to allow 

 of her being longer left at liberty, and she was put 

 into the hospital. But her husband was by no 

 means pleased with her detention, as he never 

 failed to appropriate to himself a share of her 

 plunder, and when discovered, the blame of the 

 robbery was laid upon his wife, in a fit of insanity. 

 So, while the general joy at my first arrival drew 

 the hospital attendants from their post, he took the 

 opportunity to carry off his wife, and conceal her. 

 The consequence was, that this morning complaints 

 poured upon me of gardens robbed by Catalina, 

 who had carried off as much as she could, dug up 

 and destroyed the rest, and had shown as little 

 conscience in providing herself with poultry as in 

 helping herself to vegetables. I immediately de- 

 spatched one of the negro-governors with a party 

 in pursuit of her, who succeeded in lodging her 

 once more in the hospital ; where she must remain 

 till I can get her sent to the asylum at Kingston, 

 the only hospital for lunatics in the whole island. 



