Urumi 12 June, 1891. When we got to the beach the boat had not left, thel schooner so we hailed folkes, and shelled waiting I went into a small stone building which in and by Mulgao an horn to gin and bale cotton. The gin was a primitive one worked by hand. The whole cotton crop of the island is about 300 bales of 300 lbs. each. The cotton is with raw ^4½/8ths, and the cotton seed which is shipped in 1/2 cwt bags, is worth £4 a ton. The cotton seed, Mulgao said helped to pay the freight of the cotton. All the cultivation is done with the Metayer system. The island belongs to my family who rent it to Mulgao for, I think, £150 a year. Each man is given an acre of land and labour, to take a crop of cotton off it. If the crop be raw both of clean cotton the man has to pay $4.00 for his labour rent—for all the cotton belongs to the proprietor—so a single person bends, him owning any real property on the island. An acre yields sometimes as much as 250 lbs. of clean cotton, but by allowing for bad seasons the mini- umum amount of cotton is fixed and if that a man's performance be low the metayer pays no more rent and he gets the value in money of his third Urumi. 12 June, 1891. of the produce after all expenses such as shipping to, are deducted. The metayer gets the cotton without pay but the proprietor pays $4 for shipping the produce, and his outlay is recovered in the expenses before the final settlement. Corn is also planted in alternate rows with the cotton and the proprietor gets only one third of the crop—Bender—the metayer has a provision garden in the hills, which he gets rent free. The whole system is patriarchal, but it seems to work well under the Patriarch Mulgao, only the people are poor the old Urumi Chief is not rich and except once during a smuggling row when Mulgao could to hide until 4 policemen came to restore order— this old feudal chief and his retinues has been get me well together. We left Urumi at 20'clock, the boat having come up to an old stump of a great mammoth that once lived on the banks of the Amazon some 600 miles South American river and had drifted into all the bay to the Peninsula. Getting off the stump into the boat as from a shoal, we raced abroad, requied anchor and stood out to sea, the Captain skillfully sailing the ship through the narrow passages in the