firft dinner on fliore was at a tavern in Bridge 

 Town, kept by a mulatto woman, Mary- 

 Bella Green. Plenty prevailed. The crowd- 

 ed table fmoked with fifh, a piece of boiled 

 beef, a pepper-pot; a turkey, fome roafiied veal, 

 and a quarter of mutton, with feveral dif- 

 ferent kinds of puddings, and quite an alTort- 

 ment of vegetables, of eight or nine dif- 

 ferent fpecles — European and tropical. Our 

 liquors were — moft excellent bottled porter, 

 good Madeira, tolerable claret, and very fine 

 Noyeau. In the defert we were fadly difap- 

 pointed, for, inftead of the fine tropical fruits 

 we had expeded, three or four of the very 

 common and inferior fpecles were fet before 

 us, unripe, and bad in quality: viz. goavas, 

 bananas, and four-fops, with fome tough, and 

 bitter fliaddocks — to any, and all of which, 

 the commoneft apples, or goofeberries of 

 Europe had been prefe:rable, But Barbadoes 

 is not an ifland abounding in the finer fruits 

 of the climate, hence we do not judge of the 

 delicious produdions of the Weft Indies by 

 this ill-chofen fample. 



Our party, for whom we had ordered 

 dinner, confided of nine perfons, but upoa 



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