OF IIONDURAS.


rough-squared on the spot, but this part
of the labour is generally suspended until
the logs are rafted to the different rivers'
mouths. These rafts often consist of more
than two hundred logs, and arc floated as
many hundred miles. When the floods
are unusually rapid, it very frequently
happens, that the labour of a season, or
perhaps of many, is at once destroyed by
the breaking asunder of a raft, -and the
whole of the mahogany being hurried
precipitately to the sea.
 The gangs of negroes employed in this
work consist of from ten to fifty each; tiew
exceed the latter number. The large
bodies are commonly divided into several
small ones, a plan which it is supposed
greatly facilitates labour.
 Each gang of slaves has one belonging
 to it, who is styled the huntsman. He is
 generally selected from the most intelli-
 gent of his fellows, and his chief occupa-