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> LETTER XXII. 



Meat fi!d alive in the market at Barhadoes. Cuftom sf hloW" 

 ing the meat, Creoles caution Dr. Cleghorn and the 

 author againji ivaiking. Vifit to a fugar plantation, 

 specimen of the indolent labour of Jlaves, A wajhing 

 party. Indecency of women upon the freets. EffeB @f the 

 indecent habits of faves upon the minds of white females. 

 Negro cuflsm of picking each other^s heads. Savage fight 

 between a black woman^ and a mulatto woman^ 



CarlifleBay, Feb. 



T HE oiEce of caterer for the mefs having 

 fallen to the lot of your friend, I may tell you 

 that I fometimes go to Bridge Town, to buy 

 living meat for dinnre. You will, perhaps^ 

 be furprifed to learn that animals are, here, 

 brought alive Into the market, to be killed 

 after the different joints are fold ; and, that it 

 often happens, that the meat is flaughtered, 

 configned to the pot or fpit, brought to table, 

 and eaten, without growing cold ! 



The very filthy cuftom of blowing the 

 meat, is here carried to greater excefs than 

 iu England* As foon as the calf is dead, a 



