The John crows Vultures are better off than us, they have their belly full, they eat all the filth which is thrown away or lies in the street, you are fined and punished if any one dare touch them. This week has been very wretched to me. I have only gone to the sea side to pick a few shells for Janey.

19th. March Sunday Another eventful week pastd, we fared tolerably well as I went to market and bought salt fish, liver etc. but the liver was bad, I shall buy no more of it. My Father greatly vexed and disappointed at not receiving any letter from my Mother: he received a large paket from the Colonel but it was written the day after we left Salt Creek; of course he knew nothing about the Columbians; how it will operate on his mind as regards my Father's future destiny, is what makes him very thoughtful and always savage with me; he received likewise another parcel from Colonel Harrison the U.States Consul. I am endeavouring to get employment, but I find it very difficult tho I have the assistance of Dr. Binns and others. My Father had a new scholar this week, Mr. Simon Taylor and he dined yesterday at Mr. Gyles's where he met a Monsr. Giojin who left Ireland purposely to become a fencing master in Jamaica but he will be wofully disappointed !! The Isabel arrived here last Tuesday with Captn. Humphries my Father waited on him; among other things Capt.H told him that he took Colonel Paredes the governor who succeeded my Father a prisoner and carried him to the capital of Vaagua. I hope this week will turn out better than the 2 preceeding ones.

25th. March, Easter Sunday: My Father's situation becomes every day more irksome! we are both very badly off but my Father feels the most. A French fencing master being here but finding he can do nothing, he wishes my Father to have a public assault with him, my Father has consented, provided he can get 40 subscribers, at a dollar each, which is to be divided between them, but the people here have no taste for fencing, or indeed any of the fine arts they are simply tradesmen etc. agriculturists, and even these are over done, numbers are out of employment I can get nothing to do. Talk of the negroes my Father says (and I know he's right) they are less workt and are better provided for, than any peasantry on the face of the Earth, yet they say in England how very miserably they live and talk of their slavery - there is, my Father says in London and in all of our manufacturing towns more actual misery, labour, coercion, want and disease, than can be found amongst the whole slave population they will soon find out the difference, 2 years more will make them as free as Englishmen !! then will come toil, want, misery and death !!