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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.
