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" The blacks were growing saucy, too, with much else of 
" the same kind. I could but listen and wait to judge 
" for myself" (pp. 213, 214). As to judging for himself, 
our Tourist took no steps to get evidence. Gossip 
was sufficient for him. Had Mr. Froude visited the 
West Indies as an ordinary Tourist, he might have been 
as socially exclusive as he chose. Coming as he did, as 
a self-appointed special Reporter to the British Public 
he ought not to have turned his back upon the oppor- 
tunities which presented themselves to him at King's 
House. The future of the West Indies belongs to 
the Mixed Race. So far from the mulattoes dying 
out, they number one to every four Africans in Jamaica. 
But, it is not in Jamaica only that there are mulattoes of 
wealth and consequence. The same is the case in all 
the West Indian Colonies. In Barbados, they have 
a cultivated Society of their own, but. of course, 
our Tourist, although bent upon carrying out his self- 
imposed task of letting the British Public know the real 
condition of men and things in the West Indies, did not 
think information about them worth the seeking. At 
Barbados, it is true, Mr. Froude did make the ac- 
quaintance, at a dinner party, of one man of mixed race, 
in the person of the Chief Justice of the Colony, whom he 
describes as " a negro of pure blood," although Mr. 
REEVES has an admixture of white blood in him (p. 124). 
Mr. Froude, of course, looks upon Mr. Reeves as a 
' phenomenon' : and well he might, having regard to the 
intense prejudice which has in past times prevailed among 
the whites of the old colony of Barbados. Our Tourist 
writes of Mr. REEVES as having risen to his high posi- 
tion as a lawyer only, and, regarding him only as ' an 
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