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Updated: May 9, 2025
But this Sunday promised unusual pleasure. I was to go with Aunt Marion to dine soon after midday with a Danish family, in real Danish West Indian fashion, and among the guests were to be some officers of the East-Indiamen. I carried with me one fear that we should have pigeon-pea soup.
I should be afraid to give even an approximate calculation of what all this is worth. Some of our East-Indiamen bring very valuable cargoes home; but I should doubt whether any one ship ever carried as much costly merchandise as you have stored here. I will think over how they had best be got to England.
Jago and passed by the port on the east of it I mentioned formerly which they call Praya; where some English outward-bound East-Indiamen still touch, but not so many of them as heretofore. We saw the fort upon the hill, the houses and coconut-trees: but I would not go in to anchor here because I expected better water on the south-west of the island at St. Jago Town.
One day, along with all "West-En'," as the negroes called Fredericksted Christiansted was "Bass-En'," I saw two British East-Indiamen sail into the harbor. Such ships never touched at Fredericksted; what could the Britons want? "Water," they said, "and rest"; but they stayed and stayed! their officers roaming the island, asking many questions, answering few.
Meanwhile the Constitution had returned to sea to spread her royals to the South Atlantic trades and hunt for lumbering British East-Indiamen. Captain Isaac Hull had gracefully given up the command in favor of Captain William Bainbridge, who was one of the oldest and most respected officers of his rank and who deserved an opportunity to win distinction.
The Typa is an anchorage inside the harbor, and is so called from an island which protects it from the sea. It has from four to four and a half fathoms water, and of course cannot be entered by very large vessels. Although in former times the largest sized East-Indiamen have gone in. They are now forced, if stopping at Mac
"Carimata, Shaw," interrupted Lingard. "Aye, sir; Carimata I mean. I must say being a stranger hereabouts I haven't got the run of those " He was going to say "names" but checked himself and said, "appellations," instead, sounding every syllable lovingly. "Having for these last fifteen years," he continued, "sailed regularly from London in East-Indiamen, I am more at home over there in the Bay."
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