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us to accept the use of his cottage, 

 housekeeper and retinue of servants 

 while we were to stay in Annotta 

 Bay. We accepted his exceedingly 

 generous offer and a week of great 

 enjoyment followed. 



Our time here, and elsewhere, was 

 spent much as at Port Antonio ; but, 

 instead of being cramped in one little 

 room, the whole house was ours ; the 

 housekeeper and servants, living in little 

 cabins at one side of the large back 

 yard, coming into our cottage only to 

 serve our meals and to tidy the rooms. 

 The cottage stood on the pebbly sea- 

 shore, thus being very convenient for 

 our seaweeding. Our housekeeper, a 

 dark Creole, served us the most deli- 

 cious meals we had yet eaten in 

 Jamaica. But, had we given the prep- 

 aration of the food much thought, our 

 stomachs would have rebelled. From 



