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always takes care to obtain a feat as much. t$ 

 ^windward as poffible. Cleghorn and myfelf 

 fuffer no lefs from a moft filthy cuftom of the 

 negroes — of taking a plate from the fide-board, 

 before it is wanted, and (landing with it under 

 the arm, ready to give it the moment a change 

 is required. On account of this dirty habit, 

 we are obliged to attend with eagle watchful- 

 nefs to avoid receiving as a clean one, a plate 

 which a Have has been holding for fome time 

 clofely preffed to, certainly, not the fweeteft 

 part of his naked (kin* 



In itsfupply of frefh provifions, pferticu- 

 larly what is here termed Jlock^ fuch as poultry 

 and the like, Barbadoes exhibits a degree of 

 plenty unknown in the neighbouring iflands. 

 This would feem to be the happy efFe£t of al- 

 lowing the flaves to raife poultry for fale ; 

 together with there being a number of fmall 

 fettlers, diftributed about the country, who 

 find their fupport chiefly in breeding (lock for 

 the markets. Poultry has been our principal 

 food. Turkles, guinea fowls, and chickens, 

 we have had in great abundance. When we 

 arrived, in the month of February, they 

 were fold ia the public market at little 



