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dinner, and, except that its consistence was rather 

 firmer, I should not have known it from veal. 



February 29. 

 The wife of an old negro on the neighbouring 

 estate of Anchovy had lately forsaken him for a 

 younger lover. One night, when she happened to 

 be alone, the incensed husband entered her hut 

 unexpectedly, abused her with all the rage of 

 jealousy, and demanded the clothes to be restored, 

 which he had formerly given her. On her refusal 

 he drew a knife, and threatened to cut them off her 

 back ; nor could she persuade him to depart, till 

 she had received a severe beating. He had but 

 just left the hut, when he encountered his success- 

 ful rival, who was returning home : a quarrel in- 

 stantly ensued ; and the husband, having the knife 

 still unsheathed in his hand, plunged it into the 

 neck of his antagonist. It pierced the jugular 

 vein ; of course the man fell dead on the spot; and 

 the murderer has been sent to Montego Bay, to 

 take his trial. 



March 1. (Friday.) 



One of my house-boys, named Prince, is son to 

 the Duke of Sully ; and to-day his Grace came to 

 beg that, when I should leave Jamaica, I would 

 direct the boy to be made a tradesman, instead of 

 being sent back to be a common field-negro : but 

 my own shops are not only full at present, but 



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