. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. Zoology; Zoologie. THIRD attention which the weak in this world generally experience i'yq^t^ ^]^q strong, and which the law commonly denominates an ejectment. But here, neither the frogs nor serpents were ill-treated ; they sallied forth, without buffet or rebuke, to choose their place of residence ; the world w^as all before them. The owls
. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. Zoology; Zoologie. THIRD attention which the weak in this world generally experience i'yq^t^ ^]^q strong, and which the law commonly denominates an ejectment. But here, neither the frogs nor serpents were ill-treated ; they sallied forth, without buffet or rebuke, to choose their place of residence ; the world w^as all before them. The owls went away of their own accord, prefer- ring to retire to a hollow tree rather than to associate with their new landlord. The bats and vampires stayed with me, and went in and out as usual. It was upon tliis hill in former days that I first tried to teach John, the black slave of my friend Mr. Edmonstone, the proper way to do birds. But John had poor abilities, and it required much time and patience to drive anything into him. Some years after this his master took him to Scotland, wdiere, becoming free, John left him, and got em- ployed in the Glasgow, and then the Edinburgh museum. Mr. Eobert Edmonstone, nephew to the above gentleman, had a fine mulatto capable of learning anything. He re- quested me to teach him the art. I did so. He was docile and active, and was with me all the time in the forest; I left him there to keep up this new art of preserving birds, and to communicate it to others. Here then I fixed my head-quarters, in the ruins of this once gay and hospitable house. Close by, in a little hut, which in times long past had served for a store to keep provisions in, there lived a coloured man and his wife, by name Backer. J\Iany a kind turn they did to me ; and I was more than once of service to them and their children, by bringing to their relief in time of sickness what little knowledge I had acquired of medicine. I would here, gentle reader, wish to draw thy attent
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