“Breeze no blow, tree no shake.” This is equivalent to ours, “You never see smoke without fire.”
“Hab money, hab friends.”
“If you lie down wid puppy you get up wid flea.”
“Sickness ride horse come; him take foot go away.”
“Cunning better dan ’trong.”
“Cotton tree ebba so big, little axe cut him.”
“Cuss, cuss, no bore hole in me ’kin” (hard words break no bones).
According to their publications, Americans consider Jamaica an ideal place for building up the system after over-exertion. In four days from New York they find themselves in a set of conditions totally different from their daily environment in the States.
“Among the many other advantages possessed by Jamaica,” says an American, “as a winter resort, not the least is that the tourist, whose presence and spoor are as the brand of Cain on so many of the natural beauties of the world, is almost unknown.”