



Produced by Paul Flo Williams








                            ANTIGUA
                       AND THE ANTIGUANS:



                       A FULL ACCOUNT OF
                 THE COLONY AND ITS INHABITANTS
                  FROM THE TIME OF THE CARIBS
                      TO THE PRESENT DAY,
            Interspersed with Anecdotes and Legends.

                             ALSO,

              AN IMPARTIAL VIEW OF SLAVERY AND THE
                      FREE LABOUR SYSTEMS;
                 THE STATISTICS OF THE ISLAND,
      AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE PRINCIPAL FAMILIES.

          "Sworn to no party, of no sect am I."--Pope.

                        IN TWO VOLUMES.
                            VOL. II.

                             LONDON
              SAUNDERS AND OTLEY, CONDUIT STREET.
                             1844.




                            CONTENTS
                               OF
                       THE SECOND VOLUME.



                         CHAPTER XXIX.

  Caribs: Domestic state--Treatment of their women--Children--
  Their early tuition--Superstitious cruelties--Hatred of the
  Arrowawks--Female children--Occupation of the men--Canoes--Bows
  and arrows--Cottages--Cooking utensils--Native cloth--Food--
  Fishing--Decoy fish--Spirituous liquors--Personal appearance--
  Amusements--The Carib house--Extermination of the Caribs from
  Antigua--Remarks upon their history

                          CHAPTER XXX.

  <DW64>s: Their introduction into the New World--Bartholomew Las
  Casas--His intercessions in favour of the Indians--Cardinal
  Ximenes--Origin of the slave trade--Its adoption by the English
  government--Character of slavery--Mental degeneracy--Instances
  of superior faculties among the <DW64> race--Juan Parega--
  Phillis Wheatley--Ignatius Sancho--His letter to the Rev. L.
  Sterne--Slavery in its early days--Punishment of the <DW64>s in
  1736

                         CHAPTER XXXI.

  <DW64>s: Palliations, _but not excuses_, for former cruelties--
  A harsh planter--Crimes of slaves--The little <DW64>s'
  dinner-hour--A character--<DW64>s' want of thought--Bartering
  their weekly provisions--Pilfering--The Rock Dungeon--A
  Tortolian slave-master--The murdered slave--Branding--Slave
  cargo--Remarks upon slavery--A good slave-master--A kind
  attorney--<DW64> gratitude

                         CHAPTER XXXII.

  <DW64>s: The assertion that <DW64>s are careless of all
  domestic ties confuted by anecdotes--"Shadows" of <DW64>
  character--Excuses for them--Conversion to Christianity--Belief
  of the Africans that after death they shall return to Africa--
  Instance of it--Africans and Creoles--Superstitions--Obeah

                        CHAPTER XXXIII.

  <DW64>s: Superstition--Trials by ordeal--Flower-fence--Bible
  and key--A way to recover stolen property--Charm to prevent a
  scolding tongue--Jumbies--A night's adventure--The soldier's
  last jump--Jumbies calls--Betsey, the nurse--The haunted house
  --A cure--The drowning boys--The murdered woman--The jumby's
  revenge

                         CHAPTER XXXIV.

  Seeming paradoxes explained--<DW64> suspicion--Instances of it--
  Stealing--Its various characters--Leasing--The dead canaries--
  Broken promises--Idleness--<DW64> wages--Their present lot--
  Domestics

                         CHAPTER XXXV.

  <DW64>s: "Shadows" continued--The crime of murder--Instances of
  it--Hon. Sam. Martin--Giles Blizard--Adam Ogilvie

                         CHAPTER XXXVI.

  <DW64>s: The crime of poisoning--Instance of it--Murder of Mr.
  Brown--Love and jealousy--The end of unlawful love--Infanticide
  --Incendiarism--A late instance of it--Polygamy--Disregard of
  marriage vows

                        CHAPTER XXXVII.

  <DW64>s: A little change for the better--"Shadows nursed by
  night retire"--Respect to age--Filial affection--Generosity--
  Their kindness to the poorer class of whites--Cleanliness--the
  opposite vice--Behaviour at church--A black exhorter--Reading
  and writing--An anecdote

                        CHAPTER XXXVIII.

  <DW64>s: Their amusements--Natural ear for music--Singing--
  Dancing--Subscription routs--Christmas balls--The ball-room
  decorations--Ball dresses--Gentlemen's appearance--Ladies'--
  Politeness--Supper, and the supper-table--The morning after a
  ball--Cards of invitation--The "good night."

                         CHAPTER XXXIX.

  <DW64>s: Fondness for "Nancy stories"--<DW64> loquacity--Their
  signification of the word "cursing"--Markets--Confusion of
  tongues--Weddings--The