half-negro-looking

Updated: June 22, 2025

I tink I know a chap on board who understand dat I go see you wait here till I come back." The negro left me, and in a few minutes returned, with a sort of half-Indian, half-negro-looking cut of fellow, with whom he conversed in Spanish. "He say he know how to make brown like himself but not dark same as me. Suppose you wish he do it to-night begin now?"

Frederick Marryat - Percival Keene