Note 84 — Chapter XXII
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It may be necessary to remark, for the benefit of my English readers, that although Saturday is the principal market-day, Monday is more generally used by the labouring class for coming into the capital to provide their weekly supplies. So much is this the case, that where you may see fifty labourers employed upon a plantation upon the other days of the week, on Monday you will scarcely find twenty.