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Grenada.
14 May 1851 will off. The master named his system of true hey and
then made the children sing God save the Queen. All the
schools in Grenada are mixed, but the Master informed
them that it was the intention of the Govt later on to have
separate schools for the sexes.
On leaving the school we rode a long distance right
up to the head of the Concas Valley until we came
to a low, but very fine waterfall. The road is very
bad in places, but it was being repaired. The whole
valley is one mass of cacao, and I was told that
about 2000 bags was the crop. All the cacao belonged
to small proprietors, and most of them were peasant
proprietors. A good deal of the cultivation is bad,
however, and many of the trees are dying away to
want of manure and tillage: When a proper system
of watering be adopted on their estates, the cultivation
will pay out before very long. We passed a fine
after which left the valley.
school-house built by the Govt which my family still
attended, but owing to the action of the R. C. Priest
most of the children had been withdrawn. The Priest
had opened an opposite school in a little hut which
was crowded with children of both sexes, in which
proper tuition was in consequence impossible. I saw,