524 Carriacou. 21 May, 1891.—I consulted G., for they had wasted the treasure money in digging 25 feet down, and they were quite willing that the Doctor's pocket should be punished as he had really led them into the ridiculous expense of digging for salt in a place where no water could possibly be found. Marvin soon threw his anger; there were representations of the people of Carriacou left the bare-headed Doctor to carry on his foolish digging operations, and they shook their heads, when they remembered that they had been allowed him to persuade them against their better knowledge as to dig for water in an arid place. And then they smiled and joked about the funny idea of digging more than 25 feet, when the deepest well was actually only 24 feet! A few days passed when it began to be whispered that people had been seen going to the river with buckets, and from and demi-johns, and kerosene tins. This news came riding in to Hillsborough, the metropolis of Carriacou, who had seen a woman who had heard that water the Doctor had got to the water at an incredible distance below the surface. The whole thing was of course treated as a splendid joke, and the whites, and the men with the shocks gave the woman who had heard of the discovery of the water were cheered. But before long the Carriacouians had awaking in morning 53- 21 May, 1891.—I took a run from month to month, and the people of the island looked down on me with at the incredible distance of 37 feet below the surface. G. Durant had extracted water from the bowels of the earth, and although the water was thin and had no taste or body in it, still it was good enough to make shift with, when the much nicer water of the polluted surface ponds had leaked all away in dry weather. My pony shook me past Mount Pleasant and then we got to have Bay a large sandy bay on the huddled side of the island strewn with driftwood, reeds, and other jetsam from the Rivers of Brazil. At village at the head of this bay is a case of leprosy. Nothing is done in Grenada to isolate these lepers and there are good many in different parts of the Colony. We then rode up to a narrow path leading to a place on the top of the ridge running through the island called Top Hill. My delightful pony considered it necessary to [illegible] along the new margin of the side road where steep declivity led down to the lower lands. His persuasion had the effect of getting the nice animal into the road itself, or I have paid behind a supreme disregard for reins, and equine gymnastics are various.