Footnotes
[10] Ivories is a common term among the negroes for teeth.
[11] White man.
[12] The plantain is a fruit which when ripe is very sweet; but roasted when green, it resembles a chesnut in taste. It is a general article of food instead of bread in the West Indies.
[13] Daddy is a familiar term of kindness used by the male negroes to each other, as “Aunty” is used by the females; and it is nothing uncommon to hear children, as soon as they can talk, calling one another, “daddy” and “aunty.”
[14] Bunting is the stuff of which flags are made.
[15] The captain thought the vessel was in the service of the United States, their colours being striped red and white, except the upper quarter next the staff, which is blue, and bears as many stars as there are states in the Union.
[16] Werk-en-rust, literally work-and-rest, is the name given to the burying-ground at Demerara; but here it is meant to apply generally to all places of sepulture.
END OF VOL. I.