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Fighting Fifth can be demoralised by exhaustion. 

 By leaving their outposts undefended and luring 

 the regulars into ambush, they whipped them badly, 

 and in the end surrendered not to men at all, but to 

 dogs, bloodhounds imported from Cuba for their 

 suppression. Such wholesome fear had they of 

 these brutes that one condition of their surrender 

 was that a line of troops should always be placed 

 between them and the hounds. Many were de- 

 ported to Nova Scotia, where they died of the cold ; 

 others to Sierra Leone, where they failed, to pick 

 up the lost threads of their forgotten ancestry raided 

 by Drake and Hawkins in the brave old times of 

 the slave trade. 



The worst feature about the Jamaica nigger is his 

 verbosity. He must talk, and his pompous phrases 

 and queer mistakes, his self-consciousness and 

 passion for argument make him a very perfect 

 nuisance. His capacity for silly chatter is amazing, 

 and, like the great overgrown child he is, he can 

 bare his teeth in loud guffaws over the most silly 

 jokes. On Sunday afternoon, issuing forth with his 

 fellows from some little tabernacle, the floodgates 

 of his theological lore are opened with terrific re- 

 sults. I have heard a crowd of them gravely 

 arguing whether precedence should be accorded to 

 His Majesty King Edward, the Archbishop of 

 Jamaica, or the Pope of Rome. His Majesty won 

 in a canter, and the Archbishop was runner up, his 

 Holiness of Rome having few supporters among 

 the congregation of the little Bethel on the hill. 

 The cabmen of Kingston are an importunate gang 

 and very rough in most cases with their animals. 

 By way of contrast, I recall a coachman out at 



