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CHAPTER X. 



INHABITANTS. 



The white people— Delicate languor of the women — The Tuckers 

 — Rose of the Isles — Tom Moore and Nea — Different classes of 

 people of colour — Distinctions of the tribes by Don Antonio de 

 Ulloa — Little knowledge of Imitative arts — Development of the 

 vocal organs — Display in vocal harmony — Improvisatori — 

 Christmas holidays — Pyrrhic dance of the Gombays — Their 

 dress — Prejudice against people of colour less in Bermuda than 

 in the United States — Enjoyment of municipal rights, &c. — 

 People of colour not often united with the white population in 

 matrimony — Jealousy of public feeling — Cheerful disposition 

 of people of colour proverbial — Their natural kindness to 

 offspring and friends is equally well known as characteristic 

 of the people of colour — The rising generation of the coloured 

 race — Their readiness of perception greater than that of their 

 progenitors — Social state of coloured population superior to 

 that of the States of America — The want of intelligence a draw- 

 back — The census shows a steady increase of the inhabitants. 



The white inhabitants are hospitable and amiable; 

 the women are generally handsome, agreeable, well- 

 informed, and virtuous, possessing that delicate 

 languor in their look and manner, which is always 

 charming. Some of the descendants of the original 



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