P E £ F A C E. 
It is now al)out twenty-two -years since the Mission of 
the London Baptist INIissionary Society was established 
in tlie Island of Trinidad. The Eev. George Cowen w^as 
the first missionary employed in the field. He had 
been for some time previously connected with the 
schools of the Mico Cliarity in Trinidad. From his 
intercourse wdth the people, he found that they not only 
needed secular instruction, but that still more they 
recpiii’ed spiritual enlightenment ; hence he was induced 
to represent their deplorable condition to the Society 
in London. 
In the expectation of visiting England, after an 
absence of nearly nine years spent in missionary labour 
in Trinidad, the -writer thought it would be serviceable 
to himself, and not uninteresting to tlie Baptist Churches 
in Great Britain, if he brouglit together the few facts 
w’hich had come under his notice, and jotted down the 
results of his experience during the time of his mis- 
V 
sionary sojourn in Trinidad. 
The foEowing pages are rated very humbly by the 
writer, and as no attempt at fine writing or elaborate 
