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good as  a  black  one  so  long  as  he  behaves  himself. Colored freeholders  received  the  elective  franchise  as early  as  1830;  after  1838  they  could  sit  in  the  local legislature, by  which  qualification  1853  saw  one  black man in  the  council  and  fifteen  in  the  assembly. Judg- ing from the  muscle  on  arm  and  leg,  and  the  loads the women  carry  on  their  heads,  this  West  India climate  asfrees  with   the   African.

Putting to  sea,  in  three  days  thereafter  we  an- chored before the  ruins  of  the  old  fort  of  San  Lo- renzo commanding  the  entrance  to  Chagres  river.