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three weeks of school.  I found a swarm of little children but four or five who knew the alphabet, all ignorant of their ages or knowing how to count it after learning the number.  I begin to think a good deal of them, find some stupid ones though as well as among white  children, but take them as a whole, they are much easier interested in what I say to instruct and amuse them. Lieut. Willis said he would send and get some outline maps for me, quite a number are old enough to be taught Geography orally and they need something for change and variety. have no blackboard yet but have had the promise of one ever since I began school. Quite a large number have come in the past week from adjoining plantations that I have