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THE

WEST INDIES.

PART III.

ARGUMENT.

The Love of Country, and of Home, the same in all Ages and among all Nations.—The Negro's Home and Country.—Mungo Parke.—Progress of the Slave Trade.—The Middle Passage.—The Negro in the West Indies.—The Guinea Captain.—The Creole Planter.—The Moors of Barbary.—Buccaneers.—Maroons.—St Domingo.—Hurricanes.—The Yellow Fever.
There is a land, of every land the pride,
Beloved by heaven o'er all the world beside;
Where brighter suns dispense serener light,
And milder moons emparadise the night;

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