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 epeclally for being fine, neat workers at the needle, and making the beft nures, as well as œconomits.

In proof of their conjugal fidelity, uch a thing is hardly to be heard of as a Creole woman undergoing that ignominious trial for crim. con. o frequent in the more polite countries of Europe, where alo it is too common for the women to form connections with negro men. This lat is a thing o very odious in the opinion of Creole white women in general, that the mot of them would hudder at the bare idea of ubmitting to it; and there is hardly to be produced an intance of the kind in the Wet Indies.

, o very remarkable are the Englih Creole women for obriety and chaility, that in the firt intance very few of them drink any thing but water, or beverage of lime juice, water, and yrup; and in the latter, that there