74 RRITISH SETTLZMBNT


 CHAP. V.

The pursuits of the Settlerr of Honduras lead to
 distant, and widely different directions.
 Christmas the season of general festivity. The
 slaves particularly happy at this period.
 Water-sports. The Dory and Pit-pan boats,
 peculiar to the Settlement, described. Shooting
 and fishing parties.

ONE of the most frequent, and cer-
tainly not least founded, complaints, that
has been advanced against establishments
in remote countries, is the entire want of
neighbourhood and society connected
with them; an inconvenience that can
scarcely be compensated for by the posses-
sion of every other advantage, and one that
has often shaken the resolution of the
hardiest adventurer. Thus it happens in
the country of which we speak; for labour
here, and that with a small share of occa-