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"Are you afraid to follow me?" queried Stuart to the negro who had driven the automobile. "'Fraid of dem Haiti niggers? No, Sah. I'm a Jamaican!" This pride of race among certain negroes not always rightly valued among the whites had struck Stuart before. Indeed, he had done a special article on the subject during the voyage on the steamer. Reaching the wharf, Stuart sprang ashore.
This "design" was an expedition to capture and destroy St. Jago de Cuba, the Spanish port nearest to Jamaican shores. An attack upon St. Jago had been projected by Goodson as far back as 1655. "The Admiral," wrote Major Sedgwick to Thurloe just after his arrival in Jamaica, "was intended before our coming in to have taken some few soldiers and gone over to St.
Other Jamaican troubles of some note were a revolt in St. Mary's Parish in 1765, and a more general one in 1832 in which property of an estimated value of $1,800,000 was destroyed before the rebellion was put down at a cost of some $700,000 more.
The Elegancia, where Lilas lived, was a painfully new, over- elaborate building with a Gothic front and a Gotham rear half its windows pasted with rental signs. Six potted palms, a Turkish rug, and a jaundiced Jamaican elevator-boy gave an air of welcome to the ornate marble entrance-hall.
A ladder-truck, drawn by another excited company, now rumbled upon the scene, its arrival adding to the general disorder. Meanwhile, the steady tradewind fanned the blaze to ever-growing proportions. "Why the devil don't they get closer?" Kirk inquired of his Jamaican companion.
"What dat, boss?" cried the Jamaican with wide-open eyes, as he threw the box at "Mac's" feet and stood at respectful attention. Somehow "Mac" lacked a bit of his old zealousness thereafter.
The Council, without much inquiry as to the petitioner's antecedents, allowed him to take the oath of allegiance and settle at St. Jago, while his cargo was unloaded and entered customs-free. The ship was then hired by two Jamaican merchants and sent to Honduras to load logwood, with orders to sail eventually for Hamburg and be delivered to the French agent.
Pliny writes of the slaves of his household just as any kind- hearted Jamaican planter would have written before the Emancipation Act, and it is to be noted that the head slaves of a Roman gentleman's establishment were often Greeks of high literary attainments, and treated by their masters as intimate and affectionate friends.
After the dinner, the Jamaican waiter-boys proving too slow, the dinner-party in a body adjourned to Angelina's, and when later, Major Aintree moved across the street to the night train to Las Palmas, he moved unsteadily.
He visits Enniskillen, I suppose it is a well-managed plantation on Jamaican lines, and its owner is a man of mark." Sheila spoke without agitation of any kind; her face was firm and calm, her manner composed, her voice even.
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