than the difference of climate would feem to 

 warrant. Their drefs refembles that worn in 

 our more northern latitude, being for the molt 

 part a cloth coat, with white cotton waift- 

 coat, and nankeen pantaloons. In fome in- 

 fiances people of very a&ive employment, or 

 thofe who are much expofed in the fields, have 

 the whole fuit made of nankeen. Their night 

 clothing feems more appropriate to the great- 

 er heat of climate than the apparel of the 

 day. It is common to fleep on a hard mattrefs 

 in a long cotton fhirt, without any other cover- 

 ing, except in the cooleft feafon, when they 

 make the flight addition of afimple cotton {heet. 



One of the moft prominent charaderif- 

 tics of the ifland is the tedious languor in 

 which the people of Barbadoes pronounce 

 their words. Nothing perhaps is more annoy- 

 ing to flrangers. To convey to you, by the 

 pen, any idea of their manner of fpeaking is 

 utterly impofTible : — to be comprehended, it 

 muft be heard. The languid fyllables are 

 drawled out as if it were a great fatigue to ut- 

 ter them ; and the tortured ear of an Kuropean 

 grows irritable and impatient in waiting for 



