, 1888-06-23
THE NEGRO FAMILY.
Translation from "AviSen" cf26 Mag 1881

FOUCN w O0AANNAONANJ " UANO OAOOROAS
and growing frs, lies the dazzling white
West India House. In contrast with it's gray
or surroundings it's colour may be perhaps
considered striking, unrelieved as it is by any
coloured decoration, but the impression made
on. entering the threshold is yet more mixed.
It is a good and nice idea to cover the walls
with pictures of these distant islands, which
will assist the large majority of visitors in
shaping their vague notions of our colonies to
q more correct and tangible shape.
That Of st. Thomas ION the gable wall to
the right resembles splendidly. FredeFiksted
(the picture next to it) is painted as the town
was before the riot at the close of the seven
ties. At the time the greater part Of the Bay
Street shown on the picture was burnt down
and a row Of elegant buildings has arisen
on the site of the old ones. The four small
connected houses, the gables of which face
the beholder, bearing the name of Moore
painted,in large letters, have thus disappear
ed On the empty lot which has been pur-
chased BY Apothecary Faber, has now been
baitteB solid building'for the Colonial Bank.
0Apot4ecary Fabef, whose amiability to vi
sit9rSs eEpnQt be- sufficiently praised, is person
ally present in the department. nearly every
day, and to IN. Klein, together with MeSsrS.
FeckteabMrg and MelchiOr merchants, is due
the praise for the tasteful arrangement of this
interesting department.
Mr.. Faber is also the employer of the ne.
gro family who are stationed here.
The husband, whose name is BundOrph,
has from childhood worked in Mr.. Faber's
Apothecary shop in F~rederiksted, where
among other e~mployments he has special
charge of the distiling apparatus. He has
bottled all the liquids exhibited, and is said
to be very smart. He is IS years old, light
and graceful in his movements, speaks q little
Danish with astonishingly good accent and is
extremely obliging towards all the curious
who wish to see a calabash or smell q bottle
at close quarters.
The wife Maria Louise, % years old, is not
a beauty, according to Danish or rather Euro
pean ideas, but she is perhaps especially
charmi0Bs IaeroE'ling to the notions OF the
.col9Nged EaceYf and, who shall say that oar
taste il. this respect is, the correct one
|Gfarfa Louise PREPARES elegant
Of @edAe0tk NaKdk corals, and has at home
quite ~ name foringenuity.
The best. member of the family is little
Elizabeth. She will doubtlessly become the
pet Of the whole of Copenhagen, sweet and
wild as he is. Already she is often carried
away by some English speaking ladies who
nave been charmed by her, and in the open
air would like to amuse themselves with her
natural surprise at everything strange in the
remarkable country on this side of the briny
deep. The parents smile when some one
begs to borrow Elizabeth a little" and with
touching trust, they give her to any one who
looks a little friendly. 1t will perhaps as
tonish our readers to know that the child IS
only 4 years old
The negro family, whose health and
strength has not been affected by the long
sea voyage on a German ship, are temporari-
ly lodged at Knapstedgaard, but will remove
in a few days out to Mr.. Fechtenburg's at
Plantanoci.
Our food, remarkably enough, pleases them.
While the Russian workmen certainly would
have preferred their national bran-mash
sweetened with syrup, the Bundorph family
seem to greatly enjoy a 'black-bread sand
wieh A%At breakfast they seem however to
prefesl something warm. as those out In the
West Indies do. oilfesJ'4tt
The first day Of their stay, Apothecary
,Faber took them out in the dairy and treated
them to milk and wheatan-cakes. But that
did not quite suffice, and he was obliged to
have RECOURSE to, MarstFand's island pavilion
and get them soinething more solid.
;!eNVH sSGflt 10 the Exhibition must neglect
: toforrnHitsi a~cquhintsnce of these amiable,
black iDapiksh sHhiectsl- IF able to converse
freely in English, hlNe. will find them remarkaa-
bly, unreserved With respect to the many new
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