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Updated: June 29, 2025
The following was the chant: "I say, broder, you can't go yet." "When de morning star rise, den we put you in a hole." "Den you go in a Africa, you see Fetish dere." "You shall nyam goat dere, wid all your family." "Buccra can't come dere; say, dam rascal, why you no work?" "Buccra can't catch Duppy, no, no."
I hurried down it like any schoolboy, dashing through mud and water, hopping from log to log, regardless of warnings and offers of help from good-natured Negroes, who expected the respectable elderly 'buccra' to come to grief; struggled perspiring up the other side of the gully; and then dashed away to the left, and stopped short, breathless with awe, in the primeval forest at last.
Frederick Law Olmsted, who made the only thorough surveys of agricultural life in the United States before the Civil War, would have pronounced it in all respects superior, so far as health and comfort go, to the average home of the average "poor buccra," between the Chesapeake and the Sabine.
We left the room, and turning to the right, landed in the lower piazza of the house, fronting the north. A large clumsy stair occupied the eastermost end, with a massive mahogany balustrade, but the whole affair below was very ill lighted. The brown lady preceded us; and, planting herself at the bottom of the staircase, began to shout to some one above "Toby! Toby! buccra gentlemen arrive, Toby."
"Nebba see de day, boy, 'Badian run away, boy. Go, do your work, sar. Why you talk to me? Go, work, sar. I free man, and real Barbadian born. "Negro on de shore See de ship come in, De buccra come on shore, Wid de hand up to the chin; Man-of-war buccra, Man-of-war buccra, He de boy for me, Man-of-war, buccra, Man-of-war, buccra, Gib pictareen to me."
He then shook off the John Canoe, who began to caper about as before, while the Device set up a deuced good pipe, and sung and played, barbarously enough, I will admit, to the tune of Guinea Corn, the following ditty: "Massa Buccra lobfor see, Bullock caper like monkee, Dance, and shump, and poke him toe, Like one humane person just so."
"I say, friend Bungo, how shall we manage? You don't mean to swamp us in a shove through that surf, do you?" said Mr Treenail. "No fear, massa, if you and toder leetle man of war buccra, only keep dem seat when we rise on de crest of de swell dere." We sat quiet enough. Treenail was coolness itself, and I aped him as well as I could.
And all the while the warm night wind rushes in through the high open windows; and the fireflies flicker up and down, in and out, and you slip away on to the balcony to enjoy for after all it is very hot the purple star- spangled night; and see aloft the saw of the mountain ridges against the black-blue sky; and below what a contrast! the crowd of white eyeballs and white teeth Negroes, Coolies, Chinese all grinning and peeping upward against the railing, in the hope of seeing through the walls the 'buccra quality' enjoy themselves.
Toby! buccra gentlemen arrive, Toby." But no Toby responded to the call. "My dear madam," said Treenail, "I have little time for ceremony. Pray usher us up into Mr -'s presence." "Den follow me, gentlemen, please." Forthwith we all ascended the dark staircase until we reached the first landing place, when we heard a noise as of two negroes wrangling on the steps above us.
And hereupon the tail of the beast, some fifty strong, music men, John Canoe and all, began to rampauge about, as if they had been possessed by a devil whose name was Legion: "But Massa Buccra have white love, soft and silken like one dove. To brown girl him barely shivel, to black girl oh, Lord, de Devil!" Then a tremendous gallopading, in the which Tailtackle was nearly capsized over the wharf.
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