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ping. The mountains abounded with small bullocks and 
goats ; the peasantry brought down poultry and Guinea 
fowls, pigeons and turtle doves without number ; and the 
gardens near the hamlet aiforded an overflow of fruits and 
vegetables. A species of mullet is the only tolerable lish that 
is usually caught in the bay ; but a vast quantity of land crabs 
are found in the vallies, which are an excellent article of 
food. The fresh water is thick and full of animalcules ; and 
there is but one well at the foot of the elevated plain, on 
which the town is situated, furnishing barely a supply of this, 
indispensable article for the use of the inhabitants. 
The Governor General of all the islands formerly resided at 
the town of St. Jago, which is about six miles from Port 
Praya, ^where he came occasionally whenever a fleet resorted 
to the bay for refreshments, out of the purchase money of 
which he reserved to himself a certam proportion. Each of 
^ the other islands has its black governor, who is solely de- 
pendent on the Governor General. The power and situation 
of the latter are little to be envied. Disease and want sur- 
round his habitation, and misery is for ever before his eyes ; 
and he must either submit to pass the remainder of his days 
in a destructive climate, debarred from all society, and sup- 
porting a kind of penurious pomp by mean and unbecoming 
practices, or return to his own country as poor as when he 
left it. A traveller, among the vast variety of objects that 
• pass in succession before his eyes, must not expect to find 
them all of an agreeable nature. Human life, in every so- 
ciety, is made up of a mixture of good and evil, and the 
