Customs and Manners of Tongatafao. _trt four times more uuipferous' laibe capitania bf Caracas,which does' rift con rain the siitb part of the pdppktjotfof /Mexico. The negros oF-Jaiiiajea are to thpse of New Spain ' in: the- proportion of 250 to i f—Io: the West Ijidia Ws, Pcrupapd ‘even Cataecas, lie progress of agriculture and iijr-dastfy in* genera r~depend$on the |u§mentitioW'\jP' fiegtcw: In* theisland of Cuba, for example,, yvhere the annual eiporration of sugar ha? men in twelve years from 400,000to 1 ,OCX),OOO^pin;a!s.bctweep 1^9 2 ind 1803 nearly 55,0001 slaVes have been-; itftrodnced.; • flut :in Mciico• the ^jpr^ase -of cofopial.[149]prosperity ii nowise occasioned by a-more actire' slave 'trade^;;Tt' ti hot above twenty years siira'Mexican sugar was known iib Hurppey Vera Crnz^ at present,’exports raofre than120,000 quintals; and yet'the progress of sugar cultivation which has taken place in NeW Wdcie: therevolution of St. Dqmmgo.Sas Sabtperceptibly increase^ tbe'hpmb^ii’ slaves. Of; t he 7*fC0 tKrgrq*“aii-nually fpTnish^i* by * A fricaf to the equinbxlal regions'lpf AxhekcifiM Asia/ and which are* Wonbratte colonies the sum of ^iT.boftboo francs,k not aifoye* lp0‘ la W op co^st of Mexico.”: *!i* -47 -• ' ■• -• * 1 * kt 1; 'V. * . C * . * *