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one house, with a sufficient portion of ground for 

 his family, and on the following Sunday the over- 

 seer by my order looked over the village, took from 

 those who had too much to give to those who had 

 too little, and made an entire new distribution 

 according to the most strict Agrarian law. Those 

 who lost by this measure, came the next day to 

 complain to me ; when I avowed its having been 

 done by my order, and explained the propriety of 

 the proceeding ; after which they declared them- 

 selves contented, and I never heard another mur- 

 mur on the subject. Again, mothers being allowed 

 certain indulgences while suckling, persist in it 

 for two years and upwards, to the great detri- 

 ment both of themselves and their children : com- 

 plaint of this being made to me, I sent for the 

 mothers, and told them that every child must be 

 sent to the weaning-house on the first day of the 

 fifteenth month, but that their indulgences should 

 be continued to the mothers for two months longer, 

 although the children would be no longer with them. 

 All who had children of that age immediately gave 

 them up ; the rest promised to do so, when they 

 should be old enough ; and they all thanked me for 

 the continuance of their indulgences, which they 

 considered as a boon newly granted them. On my 

 return from Hordley, I was told that the negroes 

 suffered their pigs to infest the works and grounds 

 in the immediate vicinity of the house in such 

 numbers, that they were become a perfect nui- 



