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fore have no immediate thought or regard, con- 

 cerning the mother country ; but abftradtedly 

 confider themfelves only in the detached fenfe 

 of Barbadians, fondly believing that in the 

 fcale of creation there can be no other country, 

 kingdom, or empire equal co their tran- 

 fcendant ifland — to their own Barbadoes: and 

 hence the adage " What would poor old Eng- 

 land do, were Barbadoes to forfake her The 

 fame fpirit of attachment, and of preference 

 is alfo betrayed in the common expreffion, 

 " neither Charib nor Creole, but true Barbadian" 

 — thus proudly diftinguifhing themfelves as 

 the true-born natives of the ifland which they 

 confider fuperior to all others. They do not 

 even admit themfelves to be Creoles, but they 

 are tc Barbadians" — afomethingdiftind:and fu- 

 perior — afomething different from, and unlike 

 the inhabitants of the other Weft India iflands ! 



The pride attaching to this fentiment, I 

 have before remarked to you, has diflfufed it- 

 felfeven to the negroes, who now loudly echo 

 the boaftful term, — " me Badian /" 



In the part of the ifland near the tar 

 pits, we happened to call in at a fmall hut, or 



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