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ticular disease ; and I have ordered her to be sent 

 to him in the mountains immediately. Several 

 gentlemen of the county dined with me to-day, 

 and when they left me, one of the carriages con- 

 trived to get overturned, and the right shoulder of 

 one of the gentlemen was dislocated. Luckily, it 

 happened close to the house ; and as the physician 

 who attends my estate had dined with me also, a 

 boy, on a mule, was despatched after him with all 

 haste. He was soon with us, the bone was re- 

 placed with perfect ease, and this morning the 

 patient left me with every prospect of finding no 

 bad effects whatever from his accident. 



We had at dinner a land tortoise and a barbecued 

 pig, two of the best and richest dishes that I ever 

 tasted ; — the latter, in particular — which was 

 dressed in the true maroon fashion, being placed 

 on a barbecue (a frame of wicker-work, through 

 whose interstices the steam can ascend), filled with 

 peppers and spices of the highest flavour, wrapt in 

 plantain leaves, and then buried in a hole filled 

 with hot stones, by whose vapour it is baked, no 

 particle of the juice being thus suffered to evapo- 

 rate. I have eaten several other good Jamaica 

 dishes, but none so excellent as this, a large portion 

 of which was transferred to the most infirm patients 

 in the hospital. Perhaps an English physician would 

 have felt every hair of his wig bristle upon his head 

 with astonishment, at hearing me ask, this morning, 

 a woman in a fever, how her bark and her barbe- 



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