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Updated: July 21, 2025
For five pounds of woolen yarn, have one pound of annotta; dissolve it in boiling water, and put it in a pot of soft water with half a pound of pearl-ash; boil them ten minutes, stirring it well; wet the yarn in soap-suds; put it in, and let it boil twenty minutes; then hang it in the sun, and when dry, if it is not deep enough, dip it in again; and after it is thoroughly dry, wash it in soap and water.
As I afterwards learned, the negroes who had witnessed my capture, especially the old man who had taken me for his infernal majesty, had raised the alarm, so soon as they could venture down to the overseer's house, which was on the smuggling boat shoving off, and Mr Fyall immediately despatched an express to the Lieutenant commanding the Gleam, then lying in Annotta Bay, about ten miles distant, when she instantly slipped and shoved out.
"The north shore, eh!" he exclaimed on seeing the sea. "Yes, Sah! Annotta Bay, Sah!" "Do you know anyone around these parts?" "Fo' de sake, yes, Sah! I was born in dese parts. I jes' went to Spanish Town a few years ago, when my wife's folks died." "Do you know anyone who has a motor boat?" "You want to buy one?" "Not unless I have to. Do you happen to know of any?"
In the comparative stillness I could now distinctly hear every word that was said on deck. "Pretty near it; rather close shaving that same, captain," quoth Paul, with a congratulatory chuckle; 'but I say, sir, what is that wreath of smoke rising from Annotta Bay over the headland?" "Why, how should I know, Paul? Negroes burning brush, I guess."
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