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eight months' child; and this is the third time that 

 she has met with a similar misfortune. No other 

 symptom of child-bearing has been given in the 

 course of this year, nor are there above eight 

 women upon the breeding list out of more than one 

 hundred and fifty females. Yet they are all well 

 clothed and well fed, contented in mind, even by 

 their own account, over-worked at no time, and 

 when upon the breeding list are exempted from 

 labour of every kind. In spite of all this, and 

 their being treated with all possible care and in- 

 dulgence, rewarded for bringing children, and 

 therefore anxious themselves to have them, how 

 they manage it so ill I know not, but somehow or 

 other certainly the children do not come, 



March 31. 



During the whole three weeks of my absence, 

 only two negroes have been complained of for 

 committing fault. The first was a domestic quarrel 

 between two Africans ; Hazard stole Frank's cala- 

 bash of sugar, which Frank had previously stolen 

 out of my boiling-house. So Frank broke Hazard's 

 head, which in my opinion settled the matter so 

 properly, that I declined spoiling it by any inter- 

 ference of my own. The other complaint was 

 more serious. Toby, being ordered to load the 

 cart with canes, answered "I wo'nt" — and Toby 

 was as good as his word ; in consequence of which 

 the mill stopped for want of canes, and the boiling- 



