Journal of a West India Proprietor / Kept During a Residence in the Island of Jamaica
CONTENTS
The following Journals of two residences in Jamaica, in 1815-16, and in 1817, are now printed from the MS. of Mr. Lewis; who died at sea, on the voyage homewards from the West Indies, in the year 1818.
Expect our sailing in a few hours. But although the vessel left the Docks on Saturday, she did not reach this place till three o’clock on Thursday, the 9th. The captain now tells me, that we may expect to sail certainly in the afternoon of to-morrow, the 10th. I expect the ship’s cabin to gain greatly by my two days’ residence at the “———————,” which nothing can exceed for noise, dirt, and dulness. Eloisa would never have established “black melancholy” at the Paraclete as its favourite residence, if she had happened to pass three days at an inn at Gravesend: nowhere else did I ever see the sky look so dingy, and the river “ Nunc alio patriam quaero sub sole jacentem .”—Virgil.
I left London, and reached Gravesend at nine in the morning, having been taught to exso dirty; to be sure, the place has all the advantages of an English November to assist it in those particulars. Just now, too, a carriage passed my windows, conveying on board a cargo of passengers, who seemed sincerely afflicted at the thoughts of leaving their dear native land! The pigs squeaked, the ducks quacked, and the fowls screamed; and all so dolefully, as clearly to prove, that theirs was no dissembled sorrow? And after them (more affecting than all) came a wheelbarrow, with a solitary porker tied in a basket, with his head hanging over on one side, and his legs sticking out on the other, who neither grunted nor moved, nor gave any signs of life, but seemed to be of quite the same opinion with Hannah More’s heroine, “Grief is for little wrongs; despair for mine!”
As Miss O’Neil is to play “Elwina” for the first time to-morrow, it is a thousand pities that she had not the previous advantage of seeing the speechless despondency of this poor pig; it might have furnished her with some valuable hints, and enabled her to convey more perfectly to the audience the “expressive silence” of irremediable distress.
M. G. Lewis
JOURNAL OF A WEST INDIA PROPRIETOR,
Kept During a Residence in The Island of Jamaica
London: John Murray, Albemarle Street.
MDCCCXXXIV
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JOURNAL OF A WEST INDIA PROPRIETOR
1815. NOVEMBER 8.
(WEDNESDAY)
NOVEMBER 10.
NOVEMBER 11.
NOVEMBER 12. (SUNDAY.)
NOVEMBER 13.
NOVEMBER 15.
NOVEMBER 16.
NOVEMBER 17.
NOVEMBER 18.
NOVEMBER 19. (SUNDAY.)
NOVEMBER 20.
NOVEMBER 21.
NOVEMBER 23.
NOVEMBER 24.
NOVEMBER 25.
NOVEMBER 26.
NOVEMBER 28.
NOVEMBER 29.
NOVEMBER 30
DECEMBER 1. (FRIDAY.)
DECEMBER 3. (SUNDAY.)
DECEMBER 5.
DECEMBER 6.
DECEMBER 7.
DECEMBER 8.
DECEMBER 9.
DECEMBER 10. (Sunday.)
DECEMBER 11.
DECEMBER 12.
DECEMBER 13.
DECEMBER 14.
THE HELMSMAN.
DECEMBER 16.
DECEMBER 17. (Sunday.)
DECEMBER 19.
DECEMBER 20.
DECEMBER 21.
DECEMBER 22.
DECEMBER 24. (Sunday.)
DECEMBER 25.
DECEMBER 28.
DECEMBER 30.
1816.—JANUARY 1.
JANUARY 2.
JANUARY 3.
JANUARY 4.
JANUARY 5.
LANDING.
JANUARY 6.
JANUARY 7. (Sunday.)
JANUARY 8.
JANUARY 9.
JANUARY 10.
JANUARY 11.
JANUARY 12.
JANUARY 13.
JANUARY 14. (Sunday.)
JANUARY 15.
JANUARY 16.
JANUARY 17.
JANUARY 18.
JANUARY 19.
JANUARY 21. (Sunday.)
JANUARY 22.
JANUARY 24.
JANUARY 25.
JANUARY 26.
JANUARY 27.
JANUARY 28. (Sunday.)
JANUARY 29.
JANUARY 30.
JANUARY 31.
FEBRUARY 2.
FEBRUARY 3.
FEBRUARY 4. (Sunday.)
FEBRUARY 5.
FEBRUARY 6.
FEBRUARY 7.
FEBRUARY 8.
FEBRUARY 9.
FEBRUARY 10.
FEBRUARY 11. (Sunday.)
FEBRUARY 12.
FEBRUARY 12.
FEBRUARY 13.
FEBRUARY 14.
FEBRUARY 18. (Sunday.)
FEBRUARY 20.
FEBRUARY 21.
FEBRUARY 22.
FEBRUARY 23.
FEBRUARY 24.
FEBRUARY 25.
FEBRUARY 26.
FEBRUARY 27.
FEBRUARY 28.
FEBRUARY 29.
MARCH 2.
MARCH 3. (Sunday.)
MARCH 5.
MARCH 6.
MARCH 9.
MARCH 10. (Sunday.)
MARCH 12.
MARCH 13.
MARCH 14.
MARCH 15.
MARCH 16.
MARCH 17. (Sunday.)
MARCH 22.
SONG OF THE KING OF THE EBOES.
MARCH 23.
MARCH 24. (Sunday.)
MARCH 25.
MARCH 26.
NEGRO SONG AT CORNWALL.
MARCH 27.
MARCH 28.
MARCH 29.
MARCH 30.
MARCH 31. (Sunday.)
YARRA.
APRIL 3.
APRIL 15.
APRIL 17.
APRIL 20.
APRIL 23.
APRIL 24.
APRIL 27.
MAY 5. (Sunday.)
MAY 7.
APRIL 8.
APRIL 10.
I.
ZAYDE AND ZAYDA.
II.
III
IV.
SONG OF THE TEMPEST-FIEND.
2.
3.
APRIL 17.
APRIL 19. (Sunday.)
APRIL 20.
APRIL 21.
APRIL 23.
APRIL 24.
APRIL 25.
APRIL 26. (Sunday.)
APRIL 28.
APRIL 29.
MAY 29.
JUNE 1. (Saturday.)
1817.
NOVEMBER 5. (WEDNESDAY.)
NOVEMBER 16. (SUNDAY.)
NOVEMBER 19.
NOVEMBER 22.
NOVEMBER 30. (Sunday.)
DECEMBER 1. (Monday.)
DECEMBER 3.
DECEMBER 24. (Wednesday.)
DECEMBER 25. (Christmas-day.)
DECEMBER 31. (Wednesday.)
1818.—JANUARY 1.
(Thursday.)
JANUARY 17. (Saturday.)
JANUARY 19.
JANUARY 24. (Saturday.)
JANUARY 26. (Monday.)
JANUARY 29.
JANUARY 30.
JANUARY 31.
FEBRUARY 1. (Sunday.)
FEBRUARY 2.
FEBRUARY 3.
FEBRUARY 4.
FEBRUARY 5.
FEBRUARY 6.
FEBRUARY 8. (Sunday.)
FEBRUARY 13.
FEBRUARY 14.
FEBRUARY 15. (Sunday.)
FEBRUARY 16.
FEBRUARY 17.
FEBRUARY 18.
FEBRUARY 19.
FEBRUARY 20.
FEBRUARY 23.
FEBRUARY 25.
MARCH 1. (Sunday.)
MARCH 4. (Wednesday.)
MARCH 29. (Sunday.)
MARCH 31.
APRIL 1. (Wednesday.)
APRIL 5. (Sunday.)
APRIL 8.
APRIL 9.
APRIL 15. (Wednesday.)
APRIL 17.
APRIL 19. (Sunday.)
APRIL 22.
APRIL 23.
APRIL 24.
APRIL 30.
MAY 1. (Friday.)
MAY 2.
THE END.
