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Updated: July 15, 2025
There are 'too much jumbies in him, the Negro says; and of those who dare to cut him down some one will die, or come to harm, within the year. In Jamaica, says my friend Mr. Gosse, 'they believe that if a person throws a stone at the trunk, he will be visited with sickness, or other misfortune.
The boy noticed that, by dark, all these windows and doors were closed tightly, for the Barbadian negro sleeps in an air-tight room. He does this, ostensibly, to keep out ten-inch-long centipedes, and bats, but, in reality, to keep out "jumbies" and ghosts, of which he is much more afraid. The greater part of the island seemed, to the boy, utterly unlike any place he had seen in the tropics.
There was no track of man, not even a hunter's footprint; but instead, tracks of beasts in plenty. They were safe enough, the old man said. No hunter dare approach the spot. There were 'too much jumbies' here; and when one of the party expressed a wish to lie out there some night, in the hope of good shooting, the Negro shook his head. He would 'not do that for all the world.
But the most puzzling thing about the place is, that out of the mud comes up not jumbies, but a multitude of small stones, like no stones in the neighbourhood; we found concretions of iron sand, and scales which seemed to have peeled off them; and pebbles, quartzose, or jasper, or like in appearance to flint; but all evidently long rolled on a sea-beach. Messrs.
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