^ear arms ; befides whom there are twelve 

 hundred to be employed as pioneers. They 

 have all the vivacity and levity of the French 

 charader about them ; and it^ occafionally, af- 

 fords us amufemenc to obferve the Barbadoes 

 negroes regard them with evident amazement^ 

 gaping with wonder at their volatility and 

 alertnefs. John Bull dilFers not more widely 

 from a V^kufmn petit- maitre than many of the 

 Barbadoes flaves from the /able fops of this 

 fprightly corps. 



It is now the dry feafon of the year at 

 Barbadoes, and if you have imbibed the fame 

 idea of a tropical climate which I remember 

 to have once felt, you will learn, with furprife, 

 that very few days have paffed, fmce our ar- 

 rival, without a refrefhing fhower of rain* 

 The heat is far more fupportable than we had 

 expeded. The thermometer, at noon, is 

 commonly about 80, and very feldom exceeds 

 82 ; we have not yet feen it above 84, 



It happens, fortunately, that feme of the 

 ftiips, laden v^ith the temporary hofpitals, 

 made in England, have arrived in Cariifie Bay^ 

 and, likewife, a few of the men belonging to 



