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 Hogs, raising of, ii., 176; large plantations not suited to, 177.

Homochitto ferry, ii., 164.

Honesty, instances of, among slaves, i. 148, 259; ii., 213, note.

Horses in Natchez, ii., 167; objections of a Texas drover to "iron on their feet," 54.

Hospitality, reputation of the South for, generally unwarranted, ii., 282; instances of its refusal, 315.

Hotels, at Washington, i., 28; Richmond, 51, 55; Norfolk, 160; Gaston, 168; Fayetteville, 183; specimen of, in Eastern Texas, ii., 5; first-class, at Memphis, 56; bill of fare and its result, 57; at Woodville, dress-etiquette and wretched arrangements, 148.

'Household Words,' extract from, ii., 258.

Houses of slave population in Virginia, i., 87, 104; in South Carolina, 207; Georgia, 233, 237; Mississippi, ii., 68.

Houston County, ii., 1; deserted plantations, 1; scarcity of provisions, 2; runaway mulatto captured by a negro, 21.

Hunting a runaway slave in the back country, ii., 161.

"Idee of Potasun," extraordinary composition of "the best medicine," i., 169.

Ignorance of a planter's son, ii., 90; of the father, 91; of a respectable farmer, 130.

Illinois, a farmer of, on the condition of South-western Slave States, ii., 308.

Immersion, fondness of religious negroes for, ii., 72.

Impetuosity of the Southerners, ii., 327.

Improvement in the condition of slaves within the last twenty years, ii., 101.

Indian farms in Mississippi, ii., 105.

Indians, in Louisiana, ii., 38; costume of Choctaws and Alabamas, 38; hired to hoe cotton, 93.

Intelligence and industry of negroes on a Mississippi plantation, ii., 79.

Irishmen, employment of, i., 95; the best labourers to be obtained, 95; too self-confident and quarrelsome, 195; Germans preferred to them, 195; labourers to negro masons, 297.

Iron-mining in Alabama, ii, 115; conversation with a miner, 116; wages earned, 117.

Italians at Natchez, ii., 169; their character by one of themselves, 170.

James River, i., 52, 142.

Jefferson, on the moral sense of negroes, i., 106; on the evils of slavery, ii., 231.

Jerked beef, preparation of, ii., 25.

Jews, settlement of, in Southern towns, i., 252.

"Jodel," the musical yell of the South Carolina negro, i., 214.

Jones, Rev. C. C., quoted, ii., 225.

'Journal of Commerce,' letter to, by a Virginian, on the scarcity of labourers, i., 111.

Kentucky, negro-trader of, ii., 44.

Killing negroes, viewed merely as an offence against property, ii., 190.

Labour of slaves, compared with that of labourers in Free States, i., 10, 137; ii., 382; influence of the association in labour of slaves and free-men, i., 300; cost of, in the Border States, ii., 380; difference between slave and free, 382.

Land, value of, i., 114; in Virginia and Pennsylvania, ii., 369.

Liberation of slaves on a plantation in Virginia, happy results of, i., 92.

Liberia, emigration to, i., 149, 335.

Liberty, county of (Georgia), interest of the planters in the well-being of their slaves, ii., 215; statistics of, 388.

Licentiousness, comparative, of North and South, i., 307.

Liquor, traffic with slaves, evils of, i., 251; habit of pilfering to procure it, 252.

Log-cabin in North Carolina, i., 180; in South Carolina, 206, 213; in Eastern Texas, 367.

Log-roads in the swamp, i., 145.