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48. Negresses go about peddleing various kinds of article carrying them upon their heads and unclear them as our Oyster men do. The Spanish Gentlemen are beautiful riders upon horseback. The horses are what we call Rackers and not square trotters. The planters from the interiorer generally travel with their swords buckled on a pistalo in the holsters upon the saddle in front of them, and their driving is somewhat Lehu like. The oxen are not yoked with bows around the neck as in America the horns are sawed off about five inches from the head, and the yoke is firmly bound to the horns upon the top of the neck. The teamster has a rope fastened to the nose by which he leads them, and a small pole eight or ten feet long, with a sharp point in it for a good stick. In a team of three yoke the forward one go in advance some ten or twelve feet connected by a rope by which they unclear The roads in the country I am told are very bad. Seven boxes of sugar are brought in from the sugar estates for a load the cart wheel often sinking into the mud up to the hub.