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Title: Letters from the West Indies, during a visit in the autumn of MDCCCXXXVI, and the spring of MDCCCXXXVII;
Year: 1839 (1830s)
Authors: Lloyd, William, M.D
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Publisher: London, Darton and Harvey (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e first two months of this present year.Doubtless all this outrage will terminate in thenegros having possession of the countries intowhich they are transplanted, from the simplereason that they thrive, whilst the whites de-generate, unless their loyalty is insured on thebasis of equal rights ; when this has taken placein the British colonies, it will secure them to theBritish empire. I long that Jamaica might be-come a beacon to these benighted regions; andit would, with a sound spirited governor, andwith its ports opened to Hayti, which would bethe best of policy; if the home governmentwould be fully just, the planters would yield;they are blind at present to their own interests. 6th. This letter follows my last quickly;Joseph Sturge will be the bearer of it; he hasconcluded to sail in the Orbit for New York to-morrow morning. Thomas Harvey and I re-main a few weeks longer, that we may extend ourobservations and investigations to some otherparishes not yet visited. I remain, &c.
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THE WEST INDIES. 171 LETTER XII. Yallahs, near Kingston, Uh. Month, 9th., 1837. My Dear F r. The last few days have been variously employed;on the afternoon of the fifth, I accompanied othermutual friends, to see J. Sturge embark fromPort Royal. J. Gardiner accompanied us; hav-ing a station there, he could, at the same time,visit his flock. The Chapel was formerly adwelling house, the lower rooms still answerthat purpose, and the meeting house is ex-tended over them; the reverse of what may beobserved in Demerara. After tea, we attendedthe evening service; probably two hundred indi-viduals were present, though no notice was givenjon seeing their Minister, the inhabitants knowthere will be a meeting; fama volat; and a con-gregation assembles. J. G. conveyed to his audi-ence practical instruction^ in a simple manner,elucidating the life of the Patriarch Abraham, andenforcing the advantage of a pious life, and a walkby faith : his auditors were, without many ex-ceptions, black or coloure

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