After the Storm in St. Vincent. 
Edited by Mary E. Browne. 
YESTERDAY morning concluded a long letter 
to you giving a full account of the hurricane, the 
losses we had sustained by that awful visitation 
the alarming fires which took place subsequently, and 
the precautions I took to avoid the occurrence of fire on 
my own estate. I now propose in justice to ourselves 
to detail the steps we took for the comfort and relief of 
the Negroes (even before we thought of ourselves or of 
our own residences) in order to shew you how we re- 
gard the welfare of our people on all occasions. On the 
evening after the hurricane they were employed by my 
directions in collecting every article of furniture and 
clothing they could discover amongst the ruins of their 
cottages, but as several of these were buried beneath 
masses of fallen cliffs, it was an occupation of more than 
a day. The next day, and for a whole fortnight after- 
wards they had the time entirely to themselves; and 
whilst some were assisted by the carpenters (who are 
above 20 in number) in re-building their dwellings, others 
were occupied in planting provisions, washing their 
clothes, and clearing away the ruins and fallen trees. 
The greater proportion of the breadfruit trees had been 
rooted up, and all were deprived of their fruit, the plan- 
tains, which were advancing rapidly to maturity, were all 
thrown down, and the yams, tanias and other vegetables 
so seriously injured that we were threatened with a 
famine unless some immediate steps were taken at this 
very critical period to avert so awful an addition to our 
