AND

TALES

OF

BARBADOS.

Farrago libelli. Juv. Sat.

LONDON:

HENRY WASHBOURNE, SALISBURY SQUARE,

FRASER AND CO., EDINBURGH; MACHEN AND CO. DUBLIN;
AND SMITH AND CO. GLASGOW.

1840.

PREFACE.

It would be in vain for the Author to attempt to deny that he is altogether exempt from the prevailing propensity to write, which so strongly characterizes the present age: in venturing, however, to embody in the little work before the reader a few recollections of the Island of Barbados, he must do himself the credit to say that he is influenced by a stronger motiveone which induces him to hope, that the contents of a volume, trivial enough in itself,