The People of Barbadoes.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 286, 1 August 1888, Page 6

The People of Barbadoes.

I think the density of population is what impresses a stranger most. It its like living aboard a man-of-war, where men are a^ thick as bees, and space for another one seems difficult to find. There is absolutely no privacy. Out from the city of Bridgetown, as far as you choose to go, the loads are like streets, with little boxes of houses along the wayside, each holding a numerous family, while troops of negroes stroll along the white way. Sit toi a moment beneath a lignumvitse or bread-fruit shade, and negroes spring up from the ground to gaze and wonder who you are. This teeming concentrated human life is the first novelty that the tourist sees. In an area of 166 miles 180,000 human beings live, and apparently live comfortably well." It is, perhaps, the mose densely crowded territory known, and this state of affairs makes itself evident at once in every part of the island. Streets are crowded from building to building, all day long, as a New York pavement is in the forenoon. The people are almost entirely good-humoured blacks, clean and neatly di'essed in white. - 'American Magazine.'