*36£                    TRAVELS   LN  TRINIDAD.          [Let. 17.
concealed. Not finding any, they made free with the
greatest part of it. Though I could not eat any my-
self, yet I did not admire their politeness ; I however
-remonstrated, when one of the fellows growled like A
bear, and shewed me his bayonet.
FOURTH DAT OF MT CAPTIVITT.
At half past two o'clock:,-p. m. Mr.Tunibrill, Surgeon
•of the Royal Artillery, was brought to lodge in the ad-
jacent cell, and about an hour after Mrs.Tumbrill came
to see him, but they were not allowed to exchange a
single word, for a negro soldier stood "by her, ready to
plunge his bayonet into her bosom if she opened her
lips. She went away very much agitated and distressed.
"These times must alter, but at present there is no pro-
hability, and not until the proud oppressors are glutted
with revenge : in the mean time, they are determined to
make themselves as infamous as possible. Let them go
¦on, they are pursuing a path that leads to shame and dis-
grace.
In the course of this day there were two slaves flogged
•still more cruelly than I have yet seen.
Ten o'clock, p. m. The commissioners have not yet
sent me anv medical aid.
FIFTH DAT OF MT CAPTIVITT.
This morning about seven o'clock, Mr. Tumbrill was
escorted by a file of negro soldiers to Commodore Hood's