Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-02-14
DAILY KENNl,BEC TUESDAY. FEBRUARY H. 1899

ana then keep the smoke at certain
pitch until the mosquitoes IRE kinen.
Many sleep with their houses smut up ~
that fashion during the mosquito season
or. If they open them. get up at Intervals
during the night to rekindlc the smoke
II is their only salvation. and why tney
don't bake In them VIZ .,n,, tn mndsrs,nnd
1--WE told how Mr.. n; sets OUT TOR the
Office in the morning. Now, TINS ~ now
he comes back at eventide. we Watch.
and when he gets near the piazza SER
want goes out to meet him and brushes
him Off from head to foot. Keeping TINS
DIP until he Is within an inch or Two 81
ter he sps e Oh KS t coat and netting com
bObery, filings them to the man ana darts
In as nimblv and through as small an APP
erture as possible. ! have oiten th,"u YEN.
to Il stranger. and when took some girls
down with me year before last they
laughed themselves almost sick the iirst
time or two that they saw IL done, Dnt
aftcrward they took the mosquitoes as
seriously as we did and as everybody
does. had occasion to go to see an III
woman once In mosquito time IL was an
urgent case or ] would not have gone. !
mufiied up my head aid face. put on the
heaviest dress and heaviest boots ana
gloves ! owned ana went vent IN 1h q carr, ah a'
had on n white suit, and his back, as !
looked at II. was literally black with
mosquitoes all the time. me horses were
N. had to help me jump from the vehicle
while IL was IN motion. There was no
keeping the animals siiil as got In the
, carriage to come home IN the same on
| the-fiy fashion. Frequently at church
there Is IL man stationed bv the minis
| ters side during the afternoon service u
ganist plays frantically in between times
! OF slapping AT his face and head and
hands with first one hand and thcn an
| other. lie really learns to b. remarkably
: nd IL
| when / took my New York girl visitors
| to evcnsong they nearly disSraccd them
| selves and me laughing. the mosquitoes,
| when tn:v are at their worst. even go ont
| TO the ships. and the English men-of-war
| and other vessels time themselves to give
| lnagua IL wide berth when they think
there has been Il rain.
'.Do We have any society? None at all.
| IN the usually accordc,. sense. but there
arc five white families beside the rector $
and magistratc's, wh" are cnit,va,eh'
| For the rest the island is essentially "a
black mans country. The first families.
the natives. are all black or an inter
! mingled rae" of Ia" old aboriginal CARDS
| and half-clStr negroes. resulting III :,
| copper colorcd skin. with good features,
but usually hair that kinks The bees,
| aud German as well as English. apd near.
| ~ all are musical and fond OF dress and
| good living. SO FAR as their means permit
| With all of these exchange social cour-
1
! strange to me III first to receive cniorcd
| women IN my drawing room ami sit side
by side with them as equals. but I soon
| saw that they were refined and well IN
| tcntioncd. and that. in Il certain sense.
| was the intcriopcr. not them. u IL as
| tonishin: how such things reconcile them
| selves when one is out of ones native
| environment. an agreement all tue more
odd. perhaps. since some of these very
| negro DANES who now visit mo are the
| descendants of slaves In my husband
| FIRMLY. Mr.. n. is English. though Il IVES,
| Indian and emancipation was declared III
| the bahamas only in l>3a. The LIST OF .\u-
! gust is the gala day ut lnagu:,. rs IL Is
| the anniversary of emancipation. and all
| the glitter and pomp and ceremony pos
| siblc. is ON exhibition on that day. The
| negroes of all classes are very supcrsti-
| tious. believing In charms and amulets
| and making certain concessions to spir-
| its who are supposed TO ward on trouble
| each in their special field. Squatters in
magua can live on the crown land. oil
| which there Is n lot. free of charge as
| long as they are not disturbed. People
| who wish to purchase can get 1t for from
| tive shillings to IL shihings an acre. In
| far away islands like lnagua very few
sauatters OH inferior tracts are likely 10
10 disturbed" .-sf