Henry Alfred Alford Nicholls diary
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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by the Govt which my family still attended, but owing to the action of the R. C. Priest most of the children had been withdrawn.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,