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Regularity -obferved at Barbadoes in regard to fifing and going 

 to reft* Land and fea breeze* Diet and mode of ferving 

 the table* Planters and merchants fometimes grow fat * 

 clerks, book-keepers* &c. very thin- Condiments much if ed* 

 Plenty deemed a greater excellence than delicacy of ajfqrtment 

 at a Barbados feafi* A Wejl India dinner* Englijh habit 

 of driving ladies from the dinner table praBified afo at 

 Barbadoes. Bad arrangement of dinner parties* Attend- 

 ants of the table numerous. Odour of the Negroes offer five* 

 Stock and provifions abundant at Barbadoes* Perfonal cloth", 

 ing of the inhabitants — Bed clothing. Languid pronuncia- 

 tion of Barbadoes Creoles* Concerning the ftate of the flaws* 

 Old and decrepit Negroes allowed to beg, and to lie about the 

 Jlreets* Firft example of flaves feen by the author and his 

 comrades. The Negroes of the poorer owners difiin- 

 guifjed from thofe of the more opulent* Clothing of flaves* 

 Conflruclion of their dwellings. Negroes chilly* and' hover 

 round a fire in the evening ; — are fond of f moliing tobacco* 

 Food ijfued to the flaves. Pepper pot. Hours of toil* De- 

 ficiency of moral principle among flaves* 



April & 



The uniform returns of day and night in 

 this climate appear to induce a regularity of 

 habit in the hours of rifing, and going to 

 reft. It is common to leave the pillow at fix 

 in the morning, and few perfons remain out 

 of bed after eleyen at night. The cool eft 



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