Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-09-28
[From the London American.
 A Splendid Place for Lazy Men.

A Splendid Place for Lazy Men.
 Ninety-nine years ago six hundred
 and eighty specimens of the genu
 homo were embarked on board of on'
 of Her Britanic Majesty,s ,brigs at th'
 island of St. Vincent, the seat of gov
 ernment for the English Windward Is
 lands, and transported across the whole width of the Carribean Sea to Ruatan a small island then but little known except to the buccaneers. q
 The main land, the north coast of l Honduras. is. from the island distant about twenty five miles. and the Span ish planters soon learned of the suffer ing people upon Ruatan, and gave them employment upon their plantation and this island, which was only rest l ing place, and . final one to many of the 6S0, remained unoccupied for sixty years or more, and now it has popu- lation of about 1,500, but not dcscen- dant of that cargo of Caribs brought from St. Vincent in the British brig. That race has expanded to near 15,000, and they are now found over about three hundred miles of coast from the Cape Gragias Dios westward to the port of Omoa, in the Gulf of Honduras. And it is here with these people that every hater of work and believer in the degradation of labor should immi- grate.
 These Carlos retain many of their old customs, and the Mohammcdan- Mormon institution ofpolygamy Is one. This peculiar institution carries with it the inferiority of woman as neces- sary consequence, and the Carlos be- lieve with Mr. Ruskin that labor is de- grading, which naturally leads them to impose the greater burthen upon the already degraded portion of commu- nifty, the females. When young lord of creation becomes too large to yield to the control of his mother, he takes his canoe, and, hunting up q good To- cation for home, proceeds to clear the. trees from about an acre of ground, and, building cabin, is, in his own estimation and in the opinion of the whole people, deserving of wife, which secured, he is relieved by her from further care. She attends to the garden, which produces them ample food, and also makes the scnnty clotli- ing they require, or else by fishing, or the gathering of sarsaparilla, which crows nlentifully in the fa,.nsf ,, aa.' m 4; fcr4 which ready market IS found in the United States--procures the means of purchasing cloth. which, of course, thcs degraded half converts into garments-9
 The young lord of creation is thus relieved from all labor until such time as he again shall tire of his slave wife, when he again takes his canoe and hunts another situation, where he re- peats the clearing and building, and when done he chooses another wife, who takes possession of this new homo and divides the labor of entertaining the husband with the first wife. When his lordship is tired again of his inae- tivity, this same labor of clearing and home building is repeated, sometimes till one man has five or six wives upon as many estates, usually so distant one from the other that the various wives never sec each other.
 When the number of wives is sufii- cient for the ambition of the husband, his days of labor are ended, and his life is spent in equal periods, with each, and he troubles himself not in the least with tho cares of the family, or for his food, but his days can pass in that bliss full state of incidence so lauded by many, but achieved by few.
 Itis to this paradise for the man en- nobled bya healthy disgust for de- grading labor that we confidently re- commend all the lazy to star, for the starting is easy, but the jonrneying will not be found so, as it is one of the pe- culiar results of this state of society that the great advantages of modern civilization do not extend to such pco-. pie !; if cheap and rapid communication extend to the Mohammedans, Nor mons, or the Caribs of Honduras, it will be due to the efforts of other pco- pie, not to the energy and enterprise developed by that peculiar institution which condemns one-half of the race to state worse. than A frican slavery.
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