SUMMARY OF CONTENTS. 



nity, 1 1 1 — Emancipation rarely coveted, 112 — Surgeons paid by the head, 1 13 

 — Rashness of Europeans in legislating for the West-Indies, 1 1 5 — Anecdote of 

 an African prince, 116 — Negro-slavery in Africa, 117 — Redemption of slaves, 

 118 — Slave-carrying-trade bill applauded, 119 — White -slave-trade, J 20 — Use 

 of removal, 121 — Cause of the selling value of slaves, 122 — Claim of mainte- 

 nance, 123— Use of sales by auction, 124 — Moment when vassalage begins, 

 1 25 — Cause of vassalage, 1 26 — Increase of negro population, 1 27 — Necessity 

 of negro labourers, 128 — Relative mortality, 129 — Abolition of the trade in free 

 negroes alone justifiable, 130. . , 



CHAPTER VI. 



Borasierri, 131 — Leguan, 132-^Fort-island, 133 — Supinama, 134— First 

 settlement of Essequebo, in 1698, 135 — Amicable tribunal, 136 — Taret, or 

 water-worm, 137 — Usefulness of the Caribbees, 138 — Hammock, derivation of, 

 139 — Distilleries most expedient in new countries, 140— Lowlands first culti- 

 vated by the English, 142 — Stabroek founded in 1774, 143. 



CHAPTER VII. 



Caribbees, 145 — Language, 146 — Manners, 147— Trade, US—Cannibalism, 

 149 — Worrows, 151 — Accawaws, 152 — Arrowauks, 153 — Nicholas Hortsman, 

 154 — Religion of the Indians, 155 — Feast of the dead, 156 — Polygamy, 159— 

 Fish caught by infusing hiarra, 160— Parturition, 161. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Berbice, 163 — History of the colony, 164 — Van Hoorn company, 165 — Di- 

 rectory of seven, 166 — Isle of Crabs, 167 — New Amsterdam, 168 — Tavern- 

 bill, 170 — River Canje, 172 — Coffee-plantation, 174 — Negro-population, 176 — 

 Decay of the West-Indian islands, 177— Barbadoes founded the prosperity of 

 Demerary, 178. 



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