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Christ, not only hy travelling far in all weathers and 
through all roads to hear the word of God, hut hy the 
ahundance of their liberality out of their deep poverty. 
The Sahhath scliool at this village is in a good 
condition, and from among the scholars many have been 
led into the fold of Christ. The day school, though not 
so largely attended as it might he, exerts a good influence 
upon the little community ; and we hope that the longer 
the school is maintained, the better the parents will 
■come to Tinderstaiid and appreciate the advantages of 
education. 
IMouiit Elvin and Sherring Ville, the First and Fourth 
■ Companies’ chapels, are built on land belonging to the 
Society, vdiich is not the case with the chapels in tlie 
■ other com])anies. 
At the Third Company, or Mount Pleasant, the chapel 
belongs to the people themselves. At one time the land 
belonged to the Society, and the people, without iimch 
aid from the Society, erected a chapel. In 1857 it was 
found advisable to sell tlie land to the people, which 
■was done, a nominal sum only being taken for it. At 
the time such a measure Avas deemed best for the peace 
and ju’osperity of the cause. The people, as has already 
been observed on a former page, are descendants of dis- 
banded soldiers, who, upon the close of tlie last American 
war with England, rvere brought to Trinidad and located 
upon crown lands, at the distance of about twelve and 
fourteen miles from the sea coast. For many years 
these disbanded black troops and their families were 
isolated from the general population of Trinidad, and 
formed as it were a people by themselves, with their 
own peculiar American notions and customs. Civil ization . 
made little or no progress among them ; schools were 
unknown, and religion was attended to under the 
guidance of some of their own number who had been 
preachers in America. The stream cannot rise above 
the level of its source ; nor coidd the people be much 
benefited by those who knew no diiferent from them- 
