Negro Remedies
The death of a child is much more regretted than the demise of a parent, as children represent so much capital and value to a mother and father. Disputes often occur between a man and a woman as to which of them shall have the custody of an illegitimate child. A woman having four or five children, can rest on her laurels, and subsist on the money earned weekly by her brats in the small gang employed on a sugar estate. Talking of registration of deaths, it is frequently very difficult to...
Boys 1
the mistake that so many people make of not knowing who is a lady and who is not. Now we come to u hoys ' and they are equal to any plague of Egypt. Be he fourteen or forty years old, men servants are nearly always called boys in the West Indies, and if the female servants are bad, they are worse. Among the boys1' I have had, I might mention the boy who would wear my clothes, the boy who galloped out my horses at night, the boy who gav drum dances in the dining-room when I left home for a...
Obeah Cxp
with flowery the other with kola nut and next Us, presenting a striking incongruity, was erected . migh wooden cross, looking anything but at home that outlandish company. The most remarkable 4ect gt however, was at the other end of the shed, and a low mound of hard gravelly clay, bearing on its tface a thick incrustation of salt and silicious matter the centre of the mound was a round hole nearly feet in diameter and about four feet deep, half Uled with clear water, which bubbled up with a...
An electric Girl
where young girls have been found endued with remarkable powers. Many of my readers will remember seeing in the papers, some four or five years ago, accounts of a young girl in Kent, I believe, who was endowed with the wonderful property of causing all the furniture of the room in which she happened to be, to jump about and indulge in most wonderful movements and activity. A great many papers took up the case, and the phenomenon was observed by numbers of people. The young girl as suddenly as...