FEBRUARY 18.
The Africans and Creoles hate each other most cordially.
Yesterday, in the field, a girl who had taken some slight offence
at something said to her by a young boy, immediatley struck
him with the bill with which she was cutting canes. Luclily
his loose wrapper saved him from the blow, and on his running away she
threw the bill after him
in his flight with all the
fury and malice of a fiend. This same vixen, during my former
visit, had been punished for having her teeth in the hand of one
of the other girls, and nearly biting her thumb off, and on hearing of this
fresh instance of
devilism, I asked her mother "how
she came to have so bad a daughter, when all her sons were so
mild and good?" " Oh massa," answered she, " the girl's
father was a Guinea-man."
