Another very great hardſhip on the owners of cattle, killed for the uſe of the military hoſpital, was, that they were ſeldom permitted to have a piece for themſelves, though they paid for it, but were obliged to be ſatisfied with the offals of the carcaſe. And, as for others of the Engliſh, a piece of bullock's liver was the moſt they in general could get; and they were uſually told by the French officers in the markets, "That that was too good for an Englishman."
This great deſtruction of the cattle in Dominica, at that time, was a fource of great diſadvantages to the proprietors of the ſugar plantations, thereby preventing the poſſibility of carrying on the culture of the ſugar-cane, from the want of thoſe neceſſary animals. And by this procedure of the French, ſeveral of the Engliih planters were driven to the neceſſity of ſtopping the further ſettlement of their eſlates, to the great detriment of them-
