This was to us a new _source_ of prejudice: but subsequent information fully explained its bearings.
The whites of the West Indies are themselves the authors of that _illegitimacy_, out of which their aversion springs.

It is not to be wondered at that they should be unwilling to invite the colored people to their social parties, seeing they might not unfrequently be subjected to the embarrassment of introducing to their white wives a colored mistress or an _illegitimate_ daughter.

This also explains the special prejudice which the _ladies_ of the higher classes feel toward those among whom are their guilty rivals in a husband's affections, and those whose every feature tells the story of a husband's unfaithfulness! A few days after our dinner with the governor and his friends, we took breakfast, by invitation, with Mr.Watkins, the _colored_ planter whom we had the pleasure of meeting at Millar's, on a previous occasion.

Mr.
W.politely sent in his chaise for us, a distance of five miles, At an early hour we reached Donovan's, the estate of which he is manager.

We found the sugar works in active operation: the broad wings of the windmill were wheeling their stately revolutions, and the smoke was issuing in dense volumes from the chimney of the boiling house.