At which quite unexpected artillery they fled precipitately; and have had some rational respect for a steamer's quarter ever since.

After all, I do not deny that this man's being a Barbadian opened my heart to him at once, for old sakes' sake.
Another specimen of Negro character I was to have analysed, or tried to analyse, at the estate where I had slept.

M.F--- had lately caught a black servant at the brook-side busily washing something in a calabash, and asked him what was he doing there?
The conversation would have been held, of course, in French-Spanish-African--Creole patois, a language which is becoming fixed, with its own grammar and declensions, etc.

A curious book on it has lately been published in Trinidad by Mr.Thomas, a coloured gentleman, who seems to be at once no mean philologer and no mean humorist.

The substance of the Negro's answer was, 'Why, sir, you sent me to the town to buy a packet of sugar and a packet of salt; and coming back it rained so hard, the packets burst, and the salt was all washed into the sugar.