DA AG A. 7 



that clever little History of Trinidad, by M. Thomas, which I 

 have quoted more than once : 



" Donald Stewart, or rather Daaga,^ was the adopted son of 

 Madershee, the old and childless king of the tribe called 

 Paupaus, a race that inhabit a tract of country bordering on 

 that of the Yarrabas. These races are constantly at war 

 with each other. 



" Daaga was just the man whom a savage, warlike, and 

 depredatory tribe would select for their chieftain, as the 

 African N"egros choose their leaders with reference to their 

 personal prowess. Daaga stood six feet six inches without 

 shoes. Although scarcely muscular in proportion, yet his 

 frame indicated in a singular degree the union of irresistible 

 strength and activity. His head was large ; his features had 

 all the peculiar traits which distinguish the Negro in a 

 remarkable degree; his jaw was long, eyes large and pro- 

 truded, high cheek-bones, and flat nose : his teeth were 

 large and regular. He had a singular cast in his eyes, not 

 (juite amounting to that obliquity of the visual organs deno- 

 minated a squint, but sufficient to give his features a pecu- 

 liarly forbidding appearance ; his forehead, however, although 

 small in proportion to his enormous head, was remarkably 

 compact and well formed. The whole head was dispro- 

 ]:>ortioned, having the greater part of the brain behind the 



^ Pronounced like the Spanish nuuu Da^^a. 



