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women, were chiefly white ; only that the women 

 were decked out with a profusion of beads and 

 corals, and gold ornaments of all descriptions ; and 

 that while the blacks wore jackets, the mulattoes 

 generally wore cloth coats ; and inasmuch as they 

 were all plainly clean instead of being shabbily 

 fashionable, and affected to be nothing except 

 that which they really were, they looked twenty 

 times more like gentlemen than nine tenths of the 

 bankers' clerks who swagger up and down Bond 

 Street. It is a custom as to the mulatto children, 

 that the males born on an estate should never be 

 employed as field negroes, but as tradesmen ; the 

 females are brought up as domestics about the 

 house. I had particularly invited " Mr. John- 

 Canoe " (which I found to be the polite manner 

 in which the negroes spoke of him), and there 

 arrived a couple of very gay and gaudy ones. I en- 

 quired whether one of them was " John- Crayfish ; " 

 but I was told that John-Crayfish was John-Ca- 

 noe's rival and enemy, and might belong to the 

 factions of "the Blues and the Reds;" but on 

 Cornwall they were all friends, and therefore there 

 were only the father and the son- — Mr. John-Canoe, 

 senior, and Mr. John-Canoe, junior. 



The person who gave me this information was a 

 young mulatto carpenter, called Nicholas, whom I 

 had noticed in the crowd, on my first arrival, for his 

 clean appearance and intelligent countenance; and 

 he now begged me to notice the smaller of the two 



