us by an invitation to breakfast with him, being previously informed by the soldiers of our arrival.

To my great surprize I found that Mr. Button knew me well: and though I had no personal acquaintance with him, he had frequently heard me preach at Baltimore, in Maryland. Four of his black servants had been baptized by me at that time, and one of them (a woman) is truly alive to God. His lady is a native of this island. His house, his heart, his all seemed to be at our service. We discharged our bill at the inn, and found an asylum indeed with this our benevolent friend. After breakfast, Mr. Pearce and I paid our respects to the governor of the island, who received us with great politeness. In the evening I preached at Mr. Button's house to about three hundred persons, about twice as many being obliged to go away for want of room. The next evening I had as large a congregation as on the former. Many heard with deep attention, whilst I endeavoured to shew them how the Comforter convinces them of sin, righteousness and judgment. In the morning I rode into the country to visit a gentleman, (Henry Trotman, Esq.) for whom my kind friend, Mr. Dornford, of London, had procured for me a letter of recommendation, in order to open a way for Mr. Pearce into the country; but very providentially there were two gentlemen of the same christian and sur-name in the island, and I was led to the house of the gentleman of that name, for whom my letter was not intended. He received me with the utmost politeness, and after I had breakfasted and dined with him, and laid before him our plan of operations, he informed me that his house should be always open to my friend Mr. Pearce, and his slaves at his command at all proper hours. He has about two hundred.

On Sunday morning, after Mr. Pearce had preached at seven o'clock, we breakfasted according to invitation with the curate of the parish, who received us with great civility. After dinner a note was sent me by the master of a free-school, offering me his great school-room for my evening's duty; where I had a very large and attentive congregation, many of the principal gentry of the town attending. In the evening Mr. Errington, one of the magistrates and post-master-general of the island, made us a visit and supped with us.Between thirty and forty years ago he had frequently heard Mr. Wesley and his brother preach in our chapel in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He expressed the greatest satisfaction and approbation of our designs, warmly invited Mr. Pearce to visit him frequently, and told us he should be happy on all occasions to yield us any service in his power.

On Monday morning I visited the Mr. Trotman whom I had in vain sought on Saturday. He is a plain country gentleman, has about two hundred and fifty negroes on his plantations, and after dinner informed me that he would himself take the first opportunity of waiting on Mr. Pearce, and should be happy in having any of his slaves instructed by him.

Having thus finished the business which lay before me in this island, I took a place in a vessel bound for St. Vincent's, and expecting to sail in the evening, desired Mr. Pearce to preach; as the violent heat into which preaching throws us in this climate, would have rendered it very hazardous to have gone on the water: and I had the pleasure to find that he gave universal satisfaction to a large congregation.

At Mr. Button's there were three ladies on a visit, who have a plantation and many negroes,

and have, I trust, in some degree received Divine impressions by our means. Their house will be opened to Mr. Pearce whenever he pleases: and our soldiers have engaged to hold prayer-meetings in different parts of the town three or four times a week.

Thus, by a series of remarkable providences, a wide door seems to be opened for us in Barbadoes. This island is most favourably circumstanced for the increase of the work of God. It is twentytwo miles long, and fifteen broad. It is said to contain about seventy thousand blacks, and from twenty-five to thirty thousand whites. The island is also in general divided into very small farms or plantations, so that even among the whites, there are thousands whose incomes are very small, and many who are very poor, and who cannot therefore indulge themselves in all the extremes of sensuality, in the manner too many do in this luxuriant country.

SECTION II.

ON the 11th inst. I landed at St. Vincent's, and in a few hours after set off with Mr. Baxter for the Caribb country, preaching in the evening to a lovely company of negroes in a little town called Caliaqua. The next day we were joined by Messrs. Gamble and Clark, and reached the house of our hospitable friend, Dr. Davidson; who set off with us in the morning to visit the Caribbs.— The roads, or rather narrow paths, over the mountains which form the boundaries between the English and the Caribbs, are the worst and the most tremendous I ever rode. Some time ago Mr. Baxter nearly lost his life in crossing them. His

horse fell down a precipice of thirty feet perpendicular, and the hind legs of the horse were just over the precipice before he was alarmed, when he immediately threw himself off. In one place, we could not even lead our horses, till a company of Caribbs who were passing by, lent us their cutlasses, with which we at last cut open a way.When we had descended the great mountain, we came into one of the most beautiful plains I ever saw in my life, it is but seven miles long, and three broad, but I think it is as beautiful as uncultivated nature can make it. It forms a bow, the string of which is washed by the Atlantic ocean, and the bow itself surrounded by lofty mountains. Here the Caribbs chiefly dwell. As we passed by their villages, they stood at their doors in ranks, crying out," Bou jou, Bou jou :" (a corruption of Bon Jour, a good day :) others cried out, "How dee, How dee; and many of them on being asked, delivered their cutlasses into our hands, which is the highest proof of confidence they can give. We had with us at this time one of the sons of the grand chief of the Caribbs (Chateaway.) He has been under the tuition of Mr. and Mrs. Baxter for some time, and speaks a good deal of English. His name is John Dimmey, a fine young man, and of a princely carriage.His father the grand chief was gone from home; if I could have seen the father, I believe I should have obtained his consent to take his son with me to England. His sentiments are highly refined for a savage. "Teach me your language, Dimmey," said Mr. Baxter to him one day, " and I will give you my watch." "I will teach you my language," replied the young chief, "but I will not have your watch."

When we entered into the house of one of

the chiefs whose name is De Valley, Mr. Dimmey whispered to Mr. Baxter, that the family would not be satisfied, if we did not take some refreshment, to which we consented: and they soon brought a large dishful of eggs and Cassada-bread, and a bowl of punch. Mr. Dimmey alone could be with difficulty persuaded to sit down with us at the table, the rest would serve. A little son of the chief also, (a very beautiful boy for his colour, who had been under the instruction of Mr. Baxter, and had been already taught to spell) gave us high entertainment by the convincing proof he afforded us of an infant genius.

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But in the midst of all this kindness there was some degree of jealousy: for I perceived that Mr. Baxter several times informed them that I received no pay from the king. Mr. Baxter seemed to live in their affections; and he has already made a considerable progress in their language, not help intreating him to spend two years among them, and give them a full trial. Great as the cross was to that good man who expected to return to his beloved Antigua, he immediately consented. On our return from the Caribb country, I visited our new school-house, and found it much larger than I expected, and far too large for one family. I therefore ordered the workmen to divide it: one half of which I appropriated to the use of Mr. and Mrs. Baxter, and the other half to that of Mr. and Mrs. Joice. Mrs. Baxter intends to educate some of the Caribb girls, we shall now have three teachers among them. The conduct of Mrs. Baxter in this instance is not to be overlooked. Though born of a considerable family in Antigua, and brought up in all the softness and luxury of the country, she readily consented some years ago, that her husband should sacrifice a place of four hundred a year currency

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