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which makes them dread no punishment hereafter 

 for themselves, and look with but little respect on 

 human life in others), the greatest drawback upon 

 one's comfort in a Jamaica existence seems to me 

 to be the being obliged to live perpetually in 

 public. Certainly, if a man was desirous of leading 

 a life of vice here, he must have set himself totally 

 above shame, for he may depend upon every thing 

 done by him being seen and known. The houses 

 are absolutely transparent ; the walls are nothing 

 but windows — and all the doors stand wide open. 

 No servants are in waiting to announce arrivals : 

 visiters, negroes, dogs, cats, poultry, all walk in 

 and out, and up and down your living-rooms, with- 

 out the slightest ceremony. 



Even the Temple of Cloacina (which, by the 

 bye, is here very elegantly spoken of generally as 

 " The Temple,") is as much latticed and as pervious 

 to the eye as any other part of my premises ; and 

 many a time has my delicacy been put to the 

 blush by the ill-timed civility of some old woman 

 or other, who, wandering that way, and happening 

 to cast her eye to the left, has stopped her course 

 to curtsy very gravely, and pay me the passing 

 compliment of an " Ah, massa ! bless you, massa ! 

 how day ?" 



January 29* 



I find that Bessie's black doctor is really nothing 

 more than a professor of medicine as to this par* 



