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 picked it up from the American missionaries, who have been here upwards of thirty years.

4th.—Mr. Hudson announces that the Mové will leave at 5.30 on the morning after next. Later in the day he expects to get her off by 5.30 to-morrow—towards evening he thinks to-morrow at 8.30 is more likely still. Mrs. Gault called with her boy Harry; she says, "John Holt has got a lovely waist at only two dollars." I don't want a waist—I am too thin any how—so I don't investigate the matter. We go up to Dr. Nassau and talk ju-ju. He agrees with me that dead black men go white when soaked in water.