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little creature in the island ; but Mr. Lewin informed 
me some months afterwards, that a second individual 
had been found in his house. There is a specimen 
in the British Museum, marked as Brazilian ; it is 
curious that so feeble a reptile should be so widely 
spread. It may, however, have been accidentally 
introduced into one of these localities, with goods or 
passengers’ baggage ; the more readily, as like its 
congeners, it is an inhabitant of houses. 
BEAUTY OF NEGRO VILLAGES. 
One cannot look on a little negro hamlet without 
being struck with its extreme picturesqueness. The 
peasants who commonly labour on the same estate 
usually have their huts congregated together, not by 
the side of a high road, but retired into some secluded 
nook, approachable through a narrow winding path. 
You might pass within a stone’s throw of the village, 
and hardly be aware of its existence, except by the 
hogs which scamper away on the sight of a stranger 
into the bush, or the poultry that strut and pick 
about the vicinity. This love of seclusion is almost 
invariable, and is no doubt a habit inherited from 
slavery- time,” when it was an object to keep the 
domestic economy as much out of the way of 
Buckra as possible. If you purposely seek the 
collection of cabins, you will probably have some 
difficulty in threading the maze of Pinguins into 
which the original fence has spread. This plant 
{Bromelia 'pinguin) is very commonly cultivated as a 
