Page:The West Indies, and Other Poems.djvu/85

This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.

73

West Indies, and Captain Stedman's Account of Surinam, afford examples of the cruelty, ignorance, sloth, and sensuality of Creole planters, particularly in Dutch Guiana, which fully equal the epitome of vice and abomination exhibited in these lines.

Note 6. Page 46, lines 1, 2.

Leagued with rapacious rovers of the main,
Hayti's barbarian hunters harass'd Spain.

Alluding to the freebooters and buccaneers who infested the Charibbean seas during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and were equally renowned for their valour and brutality.

Note 7. Ibid., line 10.—The appalling mysteries of Obi's spell.—See Dallas's History of the Maroons, among the mountains of Jamaica; also, Dr Moseley's Treatise on Sugar.

Note 8. Page 47, line 17.—Nor in the majesty of storms alone, &c.—For minute and afflicting details of the origin and progress of the yellow fever in an individual subject, see Dr Pinkard's Notes on the West Indies, Vol. III., particularly Letter XII., in which the writer, from experience, describes its horrors and sufferings.

This article is issued from Wikisource. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.