BARBADOES. 



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tory undertaking, in an innate curiosity and 

 fondness for visiting foreign climes, to study 

 men and manners in all stages of existence, 

 from the most civilized and cultivated, to 

 the most barbarous and ignorant. Such 

 were the views, and feelings, with which 

 I entered upon an examination of this highly 

 interesting portion of the globe, which pre- 

 sents the gratifying spectacle of a nation 

 successful in the vindication of its rights, 

 and triumphant over the mean and mistaken 

 policy that would have condemned it to 

 a perpetuity of sloth, ignorance, bigoted 

 superstition, and slavery. 



Having, therefore, procured from the 



ing myself of the opportunity afforded by 

 Sir Edward Owen's squadron then going out, 

 to gain Barbadoes in one of the ships under 



Admiralty two years' leave of absence, for 

 the purpose of^travelling, I. proceeded to the 

 West Indies, towal&s the end of 1822, avail- 



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