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The people of this island are of ordinary stature. They have amongst them people white and red, some in color like those of the Indies, others woolly-headed, blacks and mulattoes. Slavery is in use amongst them. Their food is yams, fish, cocoanuts, and they have pigs and fowls. The name of the chief is Tomai.
The congregation was black and woolly-headed Hottentots chiefly, I believe, though there may have been some Kafirs amongst them. There is something very attractive to me in the bright, eager, childlike look of black men and women.
The climate was sunshiny; and when Uncle Tom's wife, Aunt Chloe, wanted to wash, she could build a fire out in the open air, and spread her clothing on the fragrant raspberry-bushes, while her woolly-headed little flock were sent scampering over the pastures and fields. Now let us look at the Boston cabins. In the first place, there are no individual cabins for the poor.
So, in like manner, affection may arise between man and man. It was so on this occasion with Nigel Roy. As he stood abstractedly gazing at the boatman he fell in love with him at least he took a powerful fancy to him, and this was all the more surprising that the man was a negro, a woolly-headed, flat-nosed, thick-lipped nigger!
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