"Baboon" always has this accent on the first syllable and a French a.
The Blacks do not mind calling themselves niggers, but a White man must not call them so. To say "black nehgher" is an offence not to be forgiven. The word is used again quite kindly in the following:—
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Jig.
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Oh we went to the river an' we couldn' get across, We jump on the nigger back we think it was a horse.[56] Then Stephen, Stephen, Stephen boy, Stephen, Stephen, poor Stephen! |
A party get to one of the bends of Four-and-twenty River, so called because the road crosses and recrosses it twenty-four times. Stephen carries them all over.