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The Planters possessing all these Blessings, and the Produce of great Quantities of Wheat and Indian Corn, in which this Country is very fruitful, as likewise in Beef, Pork, Tallow, Hides, Deer-Skins, and Furs; for these Commodities the New-England-Men and Bermudians visited Carolina in their Barks and Sloops, and carry'd out what they made, bringing them, in Exchange, Rum, Sugar, Salt, Molosses, and some wearing Apparel, tho' the last at very extravagant Prices.
But they certainly are 50 degrees better than the Bermudians, they are very affable and agreeable, which is the great point to an indifferent person. 'Now I have tired your patience with lots of nonsense, which in fact is all the news I have to tell, so you must excuse it.
He is so call'd, from his golden Colour, which shines all about his Head and Belly. This is accounted a very good Fish, as are most in these Parts. The Bermudians have the same sort of Fish, and esteem them very much. They are a very good firm Fish. Their Heads are souced, and make a noble Dish, if large.
However, had not we the seductive program still, with its Paris, its Constantinople, Smyrna, Jerusalem, Jericho, and "our friends the Bermudians?" What did we care?
The Bermudians, especially the dark people, have a most exaggerated horror of this bush. They imagine that if one touch it or rub against it he becomes feverish, and is covered with an eruption. This is no doubt entirely mythical. The plant is very poisonous, but the perfume of the flower is rather agreeable, and we constantly plucked and smelt it without its producing any unpleasant effect.
This, together with the fact that many of the people possessed near relatives engaged in the struggle with the crown, tended to destroy good feelings towards the British government. These circumstances must be considered in order to judge fairly of the following transaction, which has always been regarded to have cast a stain upon the patriotism and loyalty of the Bermudians.
We bade good-bye to "our friends the Bermudians," as our programme hath it the majority of those we were most intimate with were negroes and courted the great deep again. I said the majority.
I entirely discredit the malicious rumours I have heard about the origin of these treasures. All male Bermudians were seafaring folk in the eighteenth century, and ill-natured people hint that these intrepid mariners, not content with their legitimate trading profits, were occasionally not averse to a little maritime enterprise.
Egypt and "our friends the Bermudians"! People in Europe desiring to join the excursion contagious sickness to be avoided boating at the expense of the ship physician on board the circuit of the globe to be made if the passengers unanimously desired it the company to be rigidly selected by a pitiless "Committee on Applications" the vessel to be as rigidly selected by as pitiless a "Committee on Selecting Steamer."
The expedition was successful, and a victory gained over the Spaniards, and they were driven from the islands; they still, however, continued to make predatory attacks on the salt-rakers at the ponds, and on the vessels going for and carrying away salt. To repel these aggressions and afford security to their trade, the Bermudians went to the expense of arming their vessels.
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