picked it up from the American missionaries, who have been
here upwards of thirty years.
4th. Mr. Hudson announces that the Move will leave at
5-3o 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 anyhow—
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.
