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LETTER XXL 



Author and his comrades live on beard Jhip at Barbadoeg* 

 Accommodation of a Barhadoes tavern. Method of cooling 

 liquors. Porter better than in England. Tavern wait" 

 ers. Black and mulatto hoflejjes. Privilege of female 

 attendants. Bar-maid at Mary Bella Greenes, Lauo 

 concerning the children offaves. Women of colour not dig-^ 

 nified with the title of mflrefs, Converfation with two fe» 

 male flaves. 



Carlifle Bay, Feb* 



From the details I gave you of our te- 

 dious voyage, you will learn, with furprlze, 

 that we ftill continue to live on board fliip. 

 But to this we have many inducements. It 

 is much cooler in the harbour, than it is in 

 Bridge Town ; we are much lefs annoyed with 

 mufquitoes ; and, from our belonging to the 

 St. Domingo ftalF, and being in daily expec- 

 tation of receiving orders to proceed to that 

 ifland, we are, at all moments, ready to move,, 

 and without the rifl^ of leaving our. baggage 

 behind 5 moreover, by living on board, while 

 we are detained to windward, our fea-habits 

 are continued, and perhaps we may thereby 



