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of Drogheda, ‘‘and every tenth man of the soldiers killed, and the rest shipped 
for the Barbados. The soldiers in the other tower were all spared as to their 
lives only, and shipped likewise for the Barbados.” 
Englishmen similarly found their way to theisland. Naseby, the Penruddocke | 
rising, and notably the Monmouth rebellion, furnished the Barbados planter with 
many a field labourer. 
And lastly the Scots—the Redshanks whose name survives in the Red Legs 
(Poor Whites). Broken soldiers from Dunbar, Covenanters from the tolbooths of 
Edinburgh, Highlanders from Culloden, they came, exiled 
“from the lone shieling on the misty island.” 
From these, the first African learnt his broken English. 
Between the Irishman and the Negro there existed intimate relations. The 
‘‘ wild Irish ” of the day were hardly less barbarous probably than the Negroes ; 
harsh terms, as “brutish ’’ and “‘barbarously bred” are used of them 
by writers of the period. Certainly the Irishman had an extraordinary 
influence on the Negro ; planters complained that he used the Negro as a tool and 
made him fit for nothing. With this turbulent Ba-kara the Negro had many 
opportunities for discourse. I note one of them. Itis recorded in the Minutes 
of Council, Barbados, under date November 6, 1655: 
Runaways.—Upon information by Captain Richard Goodall and Mr. John Jones, as also 
by a letter from Lieut.-Col. John Higginbotham, that there are several Irish servants and 
Negroes out in Rebellion in ye Thicketts and thereabouts, it is ordered, that Lieut.-Col. John 
Higginbotham have power to raise any of the Companies of Col. Henry Hawley’s Regiment, 
to follow ye said Servants, and Runaway Negroes; and if he shall meet with any of them, to 
cause them forthwith to be secured and to send them before the Governor, or some Justice of 
the Peace, to be dealt with according to Justice ; but if the said Irish and runaway Negroes 
shall make any opposition, and resist his forces, and refuse to come in peaceably and 
submit themselves, then to use his utmost endeavour to suppress or destroy them, 
I never hear a Barbados Negro say “ Darling,” or ‘‘ Deed, faith!” (‘‘ Indeed 
and in faith”) ; I never think I see a resemblance to the Irishman in his wit and 
impulsiveness, his good-heartedness and sudden flare-up, his hospitality, his 
pig even and potato—but I recall that episode two hundred years ago, when 
certain rumbustical Irish Servants and Negroes went out in Rebellion “‘in ye 
Thicketts and thereabouts.” * 
*Tom Moore’s ‘Satirical and Humorous Poems” include some verses called ‘* Paddy’s 
Metamorphosis.”” A second shipment of Irish is bound for a West Indian Island. Those in 
sight of the long-look’d for shore were 
“ Thinking of friends whom, but two years before, 
They had sorrow’d to lose, but would soon meet again 
‘* When hark ! from the shore a glad welcome there came 
‘ Arrah, Paddy from Cork, is it you my sweet boy ?’ 
While Pat stood astounded to hear his own name 
Thus hail’d by black devils who caper’d for joy ! 
‘*Can it possibly be? —half-amazement—half doubt, 
Pat listens again—rubs his eyes and looks steady ; 
Then heaves a deep sigh, and in horror yells out, 
*Good Lord ! only think, black and curly already !’” 
The West Indian island must have been Montserrat. Henry Nelson Coleridge visited 
Montserrat in 1825, and notes ;—‘* The negroes here have an Irish accent, which, grafted on 
negro English, forms the most diverting jargon I ever heard.” 
