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Meyong, and a few more of the ungodly —who had 
amused themselves by tickling the ears of the choris- 
ters with straws and palm-leaves, in vain attempt to 
upset their gravity — improved the hours so assiduous- 
ly in imbibing the new rum furnished by the husband 
of the departed, that the morning light saw them 
thoroughly fuddled. The whole settlement attended, 
old men and women and children, even to babes at 
the breast. The expense to the bereaved husband 
must have been great; and his reflection upon this 
fact, coupled with the equally saddening one that the 
wife of his bosom would never again labor for him 
in the garden, or relieve him of the burden of 
domestic duties, must have caused him to regret her 
departure. 
Eight months later, I was in the island of Saint 
Vincent, in latitude thirteen, north, two degrees and 
a half south of Dominica. Here reside (with those of 
the latter island) the only remaining Caribs north of 
South America. While those of Dominica speak a 
perverted French, these speak an equally corrupt 
English. The former are Roman Catholic in their 
faith; the latter, Church of England. Two weeks I 
lived with these Caribs, in a little wattled hut thatched 
with leaves, which was given up to me by a young 
colored man who had recently married a Carib wife. 
In St. Vincent, the Caribs made their last stand 
against the English, in the latter part of the last 
century, and there are more abundant evidences of 
ancient occupation, and the traditions are better pre- 
served than in Dominica. It was for the purpose of 
securing ,a vocabulary of their ancient language, to 
compare with one | had formed in Dominica, and to 
