CONTENTS OF
THE
SECOND VOLUME.
CHAPTER XXIX. Caribs : Domestic state—Treatment of their women—Children—'Their early tuition—Superstitious cruelties—Hatred of the Arrowawks— Female children — Occupation of the men — Canoes — Bows and arrows—Cottages—Cooking utensils—Native cloth—Food—Fishing —Decoy fish—Spirituous liquors—Personal appearance — Amusements—The Carib house—Extermination of the Caribs from Antigua —Remarks upon their history p. 1 CHAPTER XXX. Negroes : Their introduction into the New World—Bartholomew Las Cases—His intercessions in favour of the Indians—Cardinal Ximenes —Origin of the slave trade—Its adoption by the English government —Character of slavery—Mental degeneracy—Instances of superior faculties among the Negro race—Juan Parega—Phillis Wheatley— Ignatius Sancho—His letter to the Rev. L. Sterne—Slavery in its early days—Punishment of the negroes in 1736 . . .12
CHAPTER XXXI. Negroes : Palliations, but not excuses, for former cruelties—A harsh planter—Crimes of slaves—The little negroes' dinner-hour—A character—Negroes' want of thought—Bartering their weekly provisions —Pilfering—The Rock Dungeon—A Tortolian slave-master—The murdered slave—Branding—Slave cargo—Remarks upon slavery— A good slave-master—A kind attorney—Negro gratitude .
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