50 Caniacou. 21 May, 1871. abundant, and Mr. Patterson, who had sent cleared fibres of these plants to England and got excellent returns on them, was contemplating getting out a fibre machinery for to Wadesman to go in for the fibre industry. The fibre from the Agave from the belt and is now imported to the south of London. We passed several dry ponds by the road side. The water supply of Caniacou is very defective in the dry season, and the people drink brackish or muddy water and appear to like it. The ponds collect the surface drainage only and cattle are allowed to wade into these ponds and to pollute the dirt... When O'Brenant expostulated with the people about the matter they said the cattle trod down and hardened the muddy bottoms, and prevented the ponds foulating ! He told me a good story of a well-to-do resident who sent to Grenada, and told the people, when he returned, that the water of Grenada " was just nice, it was too weak and tasteless it had no body in it" !! We rode down the hill and came to Bogles, which runs down the hillside to the sea shore. The houses are very numerous & sprude amongst them. The buildings, except one or two houses are very poor and sanitary arrangements are practically nil. What with bad water, ill-constructed houses, 57 Caniacou. 21 May, 1871. and defective sanitation, it is a wonder that the people are so healthy. But when epidemic disease visits the island the mortality is very great, and this is especially the case, as one might expect, when dysentery is introduced. To the south of Bogles is a little bay with a fine white sandy beach called Yow's Bay for the reason that in slavery times, yow's case was located here in a large hospital - the crumbling stone walls of which are still visible. Sea bathing or then conducted, as it is now, to be very beneficial in the disease. Now is now no yaws in Caniacou, owing to the careful supervision of the resident medical officer who drafts all case at once to the Grenada yaws hospital. Some time ago the disease was introduced from Trinidad and Dr- O'Brenant also knew and is liked by every one of the population. of some 700 persons are informed at once, and he sent the affected persons away to the hospital at St George. Since then the island has been free of the disease. After leaving Bogles we struck right across the central hills of the island to the Windward side. My horse gave me a lot of trouble as it had been caught in the fields, when it was roaming wild and had not been properly broken in. It did not answer well to the bridle, and as I am doggy