Carriacou. St. Mary, Apr.1. to pay the port and the two other corps are considered as profit. Mr P told me that an acre yields 2 or 3 cwt of clean cotton when manured. The cost goes to the bale. An ordinary crop of maize gives 25 barrels to the acre, and if the price per bushel could get us $15 quarts. But they are sold mostly in Grenada & Barbados. Ground nuts are also grown sometimes, and a usual crop is 30 barrels to the acre; these nuts are sold in Trinidad, Barbadoes or Montegoque. The usual rotation is cotton, maize and pigeon peas. The cotton plant grown is a small shrub not higher than 3 feet; and as it has been cultivated in the island for many years without a proper application of manure to the land, its product is greatly deteriorated. It is customary for the men to leave the island for Trinidad and elsewhere to find work after the cotton fields are planted, and thus it comes to pass that the female part of the population at certain seasons is in much greater proportion than at others. I believe the island in the well-known town, having kept back the steamer three hours. When we got on board the Captain told me I need not be hurried as he would have considered it his duty to wait any time for me. He is very attentive, and he managed to get me a deck chair which was really very acceptable; and later the same Grenada. 21 May 1891. back with a fellow we steamed out of the Bay of Hillsborough and passed by Macouyas and Sandy Islands, and then ran along the south end of the island, passing the lagoon which I had not had time to visit. Here are mangrove trees, and free oysters. These oysters are considered a most delicacy and they are really very nice. Ogles had managed to get a bowl of them which he carried back to Grenada. The sea was rougher than when we came, and the boat was tossed about like a cat on the water but I am still, for after spending an hour or two in that party I was ready for anything. We got to Launceton at the south end of Grenada after about 3 hours steaming, and Mr Wells and the Rev. Dr Cunliffe—the old gentleman who had conducted the service at the African Church in St George’s when I went with the Governor. This Dr Cunliffe was formerly Rector of St John’s before the church was disestablished and discontinued in St Vincent. And, as his pension is not a large one, he takes pupils and acts as vicar tenures for other persons. In church he looked a very solemn old ecclesiastic but returned at the end of a jolly old boy, and kept us amused by his funny stories.