Philip Musgrave: Or, Memoirs of a Church of England Missionary in the North American ColoniesJoseph Abbott J. Murray, 1846 - 158 Seiten The author was the father of the future Prime Minister of Canada, Sir John Joseph Abbott. Sabin 30. Watters p. 233. A fictional account based on Joseph Abbott's "Memoranda of a Settler in Lower Canada". His account of "living, as I have done, for the last twenty-five years, in the backwoods of this wild country, shut out from the world ... ". Joseph Abbott (1789-1863) was a missionary in Canada with the Society of the Propagation of the Gospel from 1818-1847. |
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Seite 33 - As I was returning this morning from Montego Bay, about a mile from my own estate, a figure presented itself before me, I really think the most picturesque that I ever beheld: it was a mulatto girl, born upon Cornwall, but whom the overseer of a neighbouring estate had obtained my permission to exchange for another slave, as well as two little children, whom she had borne to him; but, as yet, he has been unable to procure a substitute, owing to the difficulty of purchasing single negroes, and Mary...
Seite 43 - So they stayed two or three days on the estate, coming up to the house for their dinners, and going to sleep at night among their friends in their own former habitations, the negro huts; and when they went away, they assured me, that nothing should prevent their coming back to bid me farewell, before I left the island. All this may be palaver; but certainly they at least play their parts with such an air of truth, and warmth, and enthusiasm, that, after the cold hearts and repulsive manners of England,...
Seite 95 - I have never refused a favour that I could possibly grant. I have listened patiently to all complaints. I have increased the number of negro holidays, and have given away money and presents of all kinds incessantly. Now for my reward. On Saturday morning there were no fewer than forty-five persons (not including children) in the hospital ; which makes nearly a fifth of my whole gang. Of these, the medical people assured me that not above seven had any thing whatever the matter with them ; the rest...
Seite 96 - Sunday morning they all walked away from the hospital to amuse themselves, except about seven or eight : they will, perhaps, go to the field for a couple of days; and on Wednesday we may expect to have them all back again, complaining of pains, which (not existing) it is not possible to remove. Jenny (the girl whose hands were bitten) was told by the doctoress, that having been in the hospital all the week, she ought not, for very shame, to go out on Sunday. She answered, " She wanted to go to the...
Seite 151 - We saw the ferryman lean over the side of his boat for a moment, as it passed them, while his sister backed water with her oar. " They are saved !" some one said, close behind me, in a whisper so deep and earnest that I started, and turned to look at the speaker ; when another, who heard him, exclaimed, " No, No ! they are gone ! they are lost ! the boat has left them.
Seite 134 - ... that in the night some of them removed him back to the negro village privately, and nursed him there with so much care, that he recovered, and left the estate unquestioned and undiscovered. Unluckily, one day the master was passing through Kingston, when, on turning the corner of a street suddenly, he found himself face to face with the negro, whom he had supposed long ago to have been picked to the bones in the Gulley of Spring-Garden.
Seite 29 - Altogether, they shouted and sang me into a violent headache. It is now one in the morning, and I hear them still shouting and singing. I gave them a holiday for Saturday next, and told them that I had brought them all presents from England ; and so, I believe, we parted very good friends.
Seite 60 - ... to protect them from his cruelty — my attorney had the insolence and falsehood to write me letters, filled with assurances of his perpetual vigilance for their welfare — of their perfect good treatment and satisfaction ; nor, if I had not come myself to Jamaica, in all probability should I ever have had the most distant idea how abominably the poor creatures had been misused.
Seite 34 - ... couple of heifers were slaughtered for them : they were allowed as much rum, and sugar, and noise, and dancing as they chose; and as to the two latter, certainly they profited by the permission. About two o'clock they began to assemble round the house, all drest in their holiday clothes, which, both for men and women, were chiefly white ; only that the women were decked out with a profusion of beads and corals, and gold ornaments of all descriptions ; and that while the blacks wore jackets, the...
Seite 152 - ... allowed the punt to float down with it. The young ferryman now drew up the sweep alongside, and succeeded in getting the two unfortunate men into his boat. While he was doing this, his sister went aft, and used her oar as a rudder to steer the boat. At the foot of the current, which they soon afterward reached, there was no further danger. But we watched them still; and we saw them row ashore, on their own side of the river. One of the poor fellows was so much exhausted, that the ferryman had...