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indeed very near, for the two are of different stock. 

 I recollect an interesting suggestion made to me by 

 Archdeacon Bindley, Principal of Codrington College, 

 Barbados, that this difference of origin might per- 

 haps account for the corresponding difference of 

 temperament. The Barbadian, it appears, came 

 from the Temne and Mende tribes of Sierra Leone, 

 the Jamaican from the Kru and Slave Coast tribes 

 further south. Thus the less virile Jamaica black may 

 have come from a lazier stock in equatorial Africa, re- 

 taining the disposition of the Kru boys, of whom Sir 

 Harry Johnston wrote in his volume on Liberia that 

 they are still " a noisy, self-assertive race of bullies, 

 who are cowards when boldly faced or when placed 

 in positions of danger." Dr Bindley also suggested 

 that the happy contentment and quick temper of the 

 Barbadian nigger may have been a bequest of the 

 Irishmen transported hither by Cromwell ! 



The open roadstead off Bridgetown is good 

 fishing-ground for the fighting cavalli, several of 

 which, weighing three or four pounds, were caught 

 and hauled on deck. These took both bully-beef 

 and raw steak, though the latter, which is much 

 easier to bait a hook with, proved unattractive at 

 the earlier ports of call. 



After Barbados is left astern, the interest of the 

 homeward voyage is confined to the ship, and 

 everything depends on the grace with which for the 

 remainder of the time the passengers, bent on 

 whiling away the "tedium of fantastic idleness," 

 tolerate one another, a trying test of good-fellow- 

 ship, which should not, however, plough anyone with 

 his or her share of good-nature. 



On this voyage everything went smoothly, and 



