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Naturally enough, the 'Cruits' were fiercely hated by Colonists, Settlers, and Maroons. Mrs. Dem Spanish and Portuguese sailors were quite right in making slaves.
'Cruits and comrades, unfortunately when I'm in a hurry I can never remember my right hand from my left, and never could as a boy. You must excuse me, please. Practice makes perfect, as the saying is; and, much as I've learnt since I 'listed, we always find something new. Now then, right wheel! march! halt! Stand at ease! dismiss!
The liberateds, called by the people 'Cruits, and officially 'recaptives, soon became an important factor. In 1811 they numbered 2,500 out of 4,500; and between June 1819 and January 1833 they totalled 27,167 hands. They are now represented by about seventeen chief, and two hundred minor, tribes. A hundred languages, according to Mr.
I sez to myself every time company comes, 'I'll mind wot I'm about, and remember dishes left- 'anded, pour-in's out right, sherry wine's yeller, and port wine afterwards with the nuts, grapes, and things; and the cruits when there's fish, and begin with the strangerest lady next to master's side, and 'elp missus last. I knows it all, but when they're all sittin' down, and everybody wantin' somethin', I don't know if Jane's a-goin' to giv' it 'em, or I am; and I gets stoopid, and my 'ands shakes, and somehow I can't do nothin'; but please don't send me away.
This gave rise to the preventive squadron, and in due time to a large importation of the slaves it liberated. Locally called 'Cruits, many of these savages were war-captives; others were criminals condemned to death, whom the wise chief preferred to sell than to slay.
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