MANNERS AND CUSTOMS IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS. MY DEAR FRIEND! SI understand you intend to go fhortly to Jamaica, and I prefume an entire stranger to the nature of that climate and the people thereof, 1 think it a duty incumbent on me to give you some instructions and advice refpecting both; I shall speak from experience, for I was five years in that ifland; and fhould what I fhall offer, prove any way inftrumental in promoting your happiness, I fhall hereafter feel a fecret fatisfaction for having employed a few vacant hours fo well. After your departue, you probably will be fea fick for a few days; I am forry that I never could learn any cure for that naufeous difagreeable malady but to eat and drink, and to walk the deck. |