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!

MANNERS AND CUSTOMS

IN THE

WEST INDIA ISLANDS.

MY DEAR FRIEND!

S I understand you intend to go shortly to

A Jamaica, and I

prefume an entire stranger to the nature of that climate and the people thereof, I think it a duty incumbent on me to give you some instructions and advice respecting both; I shall speak from experience, for I was five years in that island; and should what I shall offer, prove any way instrumental in promoting your happiness, I shall hereafter feel a secret satisfaction for having employed a few vacant hours so well.

After your departue, you probably will be sea sick for a few days; I am forry that I never could learn any cure for that nauseous disagreeable malady but to eat and drink, and to walk the deck