SUMMARY OF CONTENTS. 



Dutch servants and negroes, 48 — Splendor of Dutch households, 49 — Variety 

 of inhabitants, 50 — Hucksters, 51 — Butchers, 52 — Fishers, 53 — Public wor- 

 ship alternately Dutch and English, 54 — Lazaretto, 55 — Shingles, 55 — House- 

 rent, 56 — Price of labor, 57 — Cost of building, 57 — Law-charges, 58 — Public 

 negroes, or galley-slaves, 59 — Hospital at Labourgade, 60 — Benevolent rate, 

 or kirk en arm geld, 61 — Superfluity of glass bottles, 63— Barbadoes packet- 

 boat, 63 — Macaronic advertisements in the Essequebo gazette, 64 — Public 

 buildings, 65 — Fees of office, 66 — Necessity of attaching an English recorder to 

 the Dutch fiscal, as assessor, 66 — Vast influence of the fiscal, 67 — Law against 

 the private importation of colonists, 67 — Ridiculous anecdote, 68 — Exploiteur, 

 68 — Custom-house, 69 — Vendue-master, 70-- Paper money, 70 — Par of ex- 

 change, 71 — State of public defence, 72— Funerals, 73. 



CHAPTER IV. 



Keizers, a representative authority, how elected, 75 — Courts of justice, 76 — 

 Ecclesiastic courts, 77 — Orphan Chamber, 78 — Salaries of office, 79 — Custom- 

 house returns, 80 — Kingston, or Eveleary, described, 81 — Labourgade, 82 — 

 Cumingsburg, 83 — Artificers, 84 — Bridge-town and New-town, 85— Werken- 

 rust, 86 — Morning twilight longer than evening twilight, 87 — Climate, 88— 

 Coup-de-soleil, 89 — Mahaica, 90-*-Seasoning, 91 — Yaws, 92 — ^^figgers, 93-- 

 Ring-worm, 94, 



CHAPTER V. 



Reynestein, 95 — Police of a plantation, 96 — Honesty of the negroes, 96— 

 Farming-stock, 97— Oxen and mules, 98 — Water-carriage of the sugar-canes, 

 99 — Method of manufacture, 100 — Distillation of Rum, 101 — ^Negro right of 

 settlement, 1 02— Creole children, 103 — Preference given to white masters, 104 

 ' — Acquaintance of Mungo Park, 105 — Punishment by torture, 106 — Noble 

 conduct of Colonel Heslop, 107 — Gentler modes of treatment, 108— Reform 

 of criminal legislation recommended, 109— Story of Quamin, 110 — Negro va- 



