beyond the limits of the city, and is made lively and attractive 

 by trade and travel. The docks and landings, the public market, 

 the stone barracks with their iron framed and stone-paved ver- 

 andas, Fleming Square and the officers' quarters, the airy unin- 

 closed Vendue House, numerous stores and dwellings, a few small 

 hotels and private boarding houses, the eastern Parade Ground, 

 and an old cemetery still further to the east — all give tone, char- 

 acter and importance to the street, and confer upon it a very 

 great pre-eminence over all the other streets of the city. 



For several miles, during all jiarts of the day. Bay street is 

 thronged with people, almost exclusively colored. Many of them 

 are women and children, merchants in a very small way, bearing 

 their stock in trade upon their heads. Idlers abound. No one 

 is in any hurry. "How are you to-day, massa ?" — "God bless 

 you, massa" — "Can't you give me a penny, boss?" are among 

 the common salutations. The elderly colored women, when in- 

 formed that we feel pretty well to-day, with much gravity of 

 look and a devout expression, ejaculate "" Thank God!" and pass 

 along. The diminutive black vocalists remember our interest in 

 their sacred songs, and have another song which they are anxious 

 to sing to us. 



Nothing so impressed us with the evident poverty of the colored 

 people of Nassau as a class, and of the difficulty they experience 

 in getting a good and honest living, as the large number of colored 

 women and children to be constantly seen dui'ing every business 

 day upon Bay street bearing in their hands, or, (when walking,) 

 upon their heads, their little stocks in trade — here a few pennies 

 worth of candy, and there a little trifle of cake; some with small 

 quantities of peanuts, and others having small supplies of flowers 

 or fruit — the appearance of the latter often suggesting the 

 thought that it had been prematurely picked to meet wants that 

 were pressing, and would not wait. A capital of twenty-five 



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