thfTe are no gold mines, there are Spanish plan tations and sugar and coffee estates in the canton of Upata,' and so our gentlemen found out to their cost before they- had been there long. What will our readers say when we tell' them that this kidnapper, whom we -have designated as Don Ped.ro, on some prettnee -^"another,, conveyed bis unfortunate victims to a sugar and coffee estate in that canton,. and having ther-e delivered them into the hands, of the owner, to pay off s> pretended debt of five hundred dollars, which he owed him, decamped, ami was never seen or heard of by them again ? Yet suoh was the fact ; and when the men came to complain to the master of the estate, and to demand their, wages,, that personage xtoolly informed them ttiat they were mistaken if they supposed they were on hi* property to work for wages ; they wei»e there,, he said, to work out a debt of five hundred dollars which the man Pedro owed him I This is no better than African slavery. So this nan, Pedro,, instead of working to pay bis own debts, goes to a British colotiy, talks over simple innocent men, and mortgages them to a Spanish landlord,, in an out-of-the-way place in a foreign state, to> discbarge by their unrequited toil that unpleasant duty for him! And. bow are we to* tenow the origin of this debt? May it not be as fabulou* as the " gold mines " themselves ? How are we to know tlimt this, proprietor of an estate did nob. buy these people with hard cash from* the raaiv Pedro, " the debt of five hundred dollars " being only a pretence to give n colour to- the t*aiu saction 1 The subsequent history of these men> may be narrated in a few words. Through the agency of a kind-hearted doctor in the neighbourhood r lo wborn they found means to make their grievances known, they succeeded in effecting their* escape from the plantation by night, with the view of proceeding to Bolivar, where they hoped to find a* passage by one of the schooners that ply witb cattle between that port and Demerara.. 