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239 and keep up a terrible noise- singing- they call it!. but such as one would not wish to hear more than once.- Soon as they commences coaling it was so dirty on board- coal dusts" the passengers began to go on shore- and were glad to improve this opportunity, after being on board ship a week or so- the population here is mostly Blacks, and they are the most lazy- indolent and filthy set of beings- I ever saw- the male portion in particular. They live, as we were told here, by stealing almost impossible to get one to work- and this has been the case, / as we were told here by some of the English residents/ ever since their Emancipation- they tell us it is not of any use for a person living near town, to attempt to raise anything- as these Blacks will steal so- this is the way they get their living- stealing fruit etc- and selling the same to passengers, and others, that arrive here by steamers, and other vessels, when a Steamer arrived here, this, is a great time for these black- they calculate to get enoug out of the passengers & others, to last them, till another comes in- fruits of all kinds, Tropical were exposed for sale at every corner of the streets- and in fact- at almost every step, in the streets- by these miserable beings, blacks'- miserable, I say-