Sailors, British, a race of heroes, i. 18.
Indifference of, in danger, i. 68.
Their degrees of comparison, i. 70.
Dangerous situation of a party of, i. 45.
Coarse witticisms of, i. 43.
“Sand-hill” estate, its situation—temperature—inhospitality, ii. 193,
194.
“Sans Souci,” plantation, i. 464.
St. Andrew, Fort, situation of, i. 422.
St. Vincent, island of, endangered by Charibs, i. 234.
“Savonette,” plantation, i. 492.
Scenery, change of, up the Demarara river, ii. 200.
Schacomynghy, or lion-monkey, ii. 27.
Scholten, M. chirurgien-major, at Berbische, i. 493.
Schneider, M. journey of, up the river Berbische, i. 467.
Scotland, a district in Barbadoes, i. 149.
Scotsman, eccentric life of a, at Demarara, ii. 190.
Scott, Dr. assistant inspector, at St. Domingo, ii. 396.
Season, the dry, salubrity of, ii. 111.
Pleasant approach of, ii. 175.
Happy effect of, at Mahaica, ii. 119.
Occasional showers of, i. 209.
The wet, description of, ii. 138.
Indications of, ii. 295.
At Demarara, remarks upon, ii. 253.
At Martinique, ii. 336.
Sensibility, European female, destroyed, i. 343.
Sharks, stupidity of, i. 91.
Mode of catching, _ib._
Ship, security of a, at open sea, i. 67.
Every sailor’s, the “best in the world,” i. 85.
Leaky, horrors of a, at sea, i. 241.
In distress, awful appearance of a, i. 61.
Simcoe, General, chief governor, at St. Domingo, ii. 521.
Slaves, first specimen of, seen by the author, i. 296.
Example of the labour of, at Barbadoes, i. 122.
In Guiana, i. 533. ii. 199, 214, 216, 283, 347.
At Jamaica, ii. 371.
Their hard lot, i. 216, 274, 342, 363, 388. ii. 45, 52.
Punishment of, i. 348, 389, 470. ii. 46, 174, 333.
A gang of, commanded by a female driver, ii. 121.
Character of, i. 119, 302. ii. 111, 210, 315, 354, 461, 529.
And slavery, general observations upon, ii. 454, 465.
Treatment of, by opulent planters, i. 298. ii. 459.
By poorer owners, _ib._
By the French, ii. 329.
French mode of punishing, _ib._
Their huts, i. 143
—food, i. 298
—clothing, i. 299.
Their mode of spending the Sabbath, i. 126. ii. 131.
Their ideas relative to freedom, ii. 167, 463.
To crimes and punishments, ii. 169.
Female, their views respecting liberty, ii. 168.
Solicitation of one, to be purchased, i. 342.
Their habit of thieving, i. 302.
Employed as running footmen, i. 139, 162, 482.
European feelings concerning, i. 139, 163.
Happy gang of, at Mr. Dougan’s, i. 352.
At Mr. Waith’s, i. 197.
Cottages, and gardens of, i. 353.
A shocking instance of barbarity towards, ii. 45.
Cruel punishment of one, by a Dutchman, ii. 333.
Funeral of one who was murdered, ii. 47.
Protracted sufferings of, from flogging, ii. 52.
Conduct of a captured party of, ii. 315.
Gratitude of one, named Prince, ii. 173.
Surprise of a party of, at “the Falls,” ii. 210.
Purchased to let on hire, ii. 278.
The price of, ii. 457.
Number of, in Demarara and Essequibo, ii. 277.
The sad effects of governing, ii. 462.
Remarks concerning the emancipation of, ii. 464, 525.
Probable importation of, notwithstanding the abolition, ii. 526.
Slave-trade, remarks concerning the, ii. 465.
Slavery, contrasted with military duty, ii. 130.
Its effect, in debasing the mind, i. 469, ii. 461.
On what ground condemned, ii. 460.
Slave-vendue, a fête at Berbische, i. 429.
Smoking, acquired habit of, i. 532.
Snake, an enormous one, at Berbische, ii. 2.
“Social rock,” at Colonel Williams’s, i. 160.
Soldiers, intrepid character of, i. 8.
Southampton, the camp at, i. 6.
Spanish town, author’s visit to, ii. 373.
Description of, ii. 376.
Its environs, _ib._
Remarks on the road, scenery, and traffic, ii. 374.
Specimens of Indian implements, &c. shipped for London, ii. 282.
“Spendlove” estate, i. 196.
Spithead, a severe gale at, i. 40.
Spring, boiling, description of a, i. 151.
Spy, a French one, at Barbadoes, i. 234.
Stabroek, town of, i. 332.
Hospitality of an inhabitant of, i. 334.
Stadtholder, his birth-day festivities, ii. 235.
Stanley, transport, supposed loss of the, i. 41.
Arrival of the, at Barbadoes, i. 99.
Stewart, Mr. his plantation of ginger, i. 188.
Stone, a rock of, novelty of viewing, ii. 208.
Sugar, mode of claying, i. 194.
Sun and moon, view of the, from the ocean, i. 95.
Supper, a Dutch lady’s, ii. 162.
—scene, at Martinique, ii. 323.
Surgeons, regimental, new regulations for, ii. 249.