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CHAPTER XIII. BARBADOS.
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Barbados is a very respectable little island, and it makes a great deal of sugar. It is not picturesquely1 beautiful, as are almost all the other Antilles, and therefore has but few attractions for strangers.
But this very absence of scenic3 beauty has saved it from the fate of its neighbours. A country that is broken into landscapes, that boasts of its mountains, woods, and waterfalls, that is regarded for its wild loveliness, is seldom propitious4 to agriculture. A portion of the surface in all such regions defies the improving farmer. But, beyond this, such ground under the tropics offers every inducement to the negro squatter6. In Jamaica, Dominica, St. Lucia, and Grenada, the negro, when emancipated7, could squat5 and make himself happy; but in Barbados there was not an inch for him.
When emancipation8 came there was no squatting9 ground for the poor Barbadian. He had still to work and make sugar—work quite as hard as he had done while yet a slave. He had to do that or to starve. Consequently, labour has been abundant in this island, and in this island only; and in all the West Indian troubles it has kept its head above water, and made sugar respectably—not, indeed, showing much sugar genius, or going ahead in the way of improvements, but paying twenty shillings in the pound, supporting itself, and earning its bread decently by the sweat of its brow. The pity is that the Barbadians themselves should think so much of their own achievements.
The story runs, that when Europe was convulsed by revolutions and wars—when continental10 sovereigns were flying hither and
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manure
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virgin
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miller
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baker
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