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To handle the hoe has now become a disgrace, and men have lost their manhood by becoming gentlemen. I shall presently return to this subject. Thus the four colonies which successively peopled Sá Leone were composed of destitute paupers from England, of fugitive Nova Scotian serviles, of outlawed Jamaican negroes, and of slave-prisoners or criminals from every region of Western and inner Africa.
Vaccination is not at all practised among the negro population, by native vaccinators; it is, however, practised among certain branches of the negro population by European surgeons; the negro population of Sierra Leone consists of Nova Scotian, and Maroon settlers, liberated Africans, and several of the aboriginal African tribes, namely, Timmanees, Mandingoes, Soosoos, Boollams, Sherbros, &c. &c. &c.
"Think," he said; "I bring the fool two thousand miles and then not even able to begin on a land-crab. A fool!" The Nova Scotian cast an uninterested side glance at him, and said in English, which Salazar did not understand: "So you went there, after all? And now he's got you." I did not answer him. "I know all about you," he added. "It's more than I do about you," I said.
He organized the few Acadians on the river into a militia corps, the officers of which were commissioned by Count de la Galissonniere. Meanwhile the Abbe Le Loutre was employing his energies to get the Acadians to leave their lands in the Nova Scotian peninsula and repair to the St. John river and other places north of the isthmus.
"We have been under fire since the last week in February. One boy he was a Nova Scotian was killed right beside me yesterday. A shell burst near us and when the mess cleared away he was lying dead not mangled at all he just looked a little startled. It was the first time I'd been close to anything like that and it was a nasty sensation, but one soon gets used to horrors here.
"Of the Scotian, sir; for I know nothing of the jaw-cracking names that the officers in the cabin have given her," replied the engineer, shrugging his shoulders, and presenting a dissatisfied air. "Are you an engineer in the Confederate Navy, sir?" asked Christy, bringing the business to a head at once. "No, sir, I am not," answered the engineer very decidedly.
"Yes, sir; and I have already examined her engine; I suppose you mean the Scotian, for that is the name on her stern, they tell me," replied the chief engineer. "Her new name is the Ocklockonee." "I have examined the engine," replied Sampson. "Is the damage very serious?" asked the captain anxiously.
At Pictou, especially, the industry of building wooden ships grew up, which, until knocked on the head by the use of iron and steel, made Nova Scotian industry known on every sea, and gave her in the fifties a larger tonnage than all the other British colonies combined. Chisholm, Speeches and Letters, vol. ii, p. 177. See The War with the United States, chap. v.
During Howe's absence she had partially committed herself to the construction of such a line by a private company, but Howe was soon able to convert her government to the view that it was better to build both lines with money costing only three and a half per cent than to build one at six per cent. In November the Railway Bills were brought down in the Nova Scotian legislature.
On 23rd December we left our camp and tried to board the Prince Abbas, but the storm was too strong and we had to land again. However, we got off next day, reached Mudros Harbour, and changed on to the Scotian on Christmas Day. None of us will forget the kindness with which we were received on the Scotian, and the arrival of a huge mail and plum puddings completed our joy.
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