...slapdash over his head and shoulders and into his mouth, so as to set the dear little man a-cougbing so violently that I thought he would have been throttled....the breeze loud and strong. When we got nearer, the wharfs and different streets, as we successively opened them, were crowded with the blackamoors, men,...

..."Tom Cringle's Log" and " The Cruise of the Midge," which first appeared in Blackwood' 's Magazine.] THIS day was the first of the Negro Carnival or Christmas...the breeze loud and strong. When we got nearer, the wharfs and different streets, as we successively opened them, were crowded with blackamoors, men, women,...

...Tom Cringle's Log " and " The Cruise of the Midge," which first appeared in Blackwood's Magazine.] THIS day was the first of the Negro Carnival or Christmas...the breeze loud and strong. When we got nearer, the wharfs and different streets, as we successively opened them, were crowded with blackamoors, men, women,...

...author of " Tom Cringle's Log " and " The Cruise of the Midge," which first appeared in Magazine.] THIS day was the first of the Negro Carnival or Christmas...and at the distance of two miles from Kingston the Bound of the negro drums and horns, the barbarous music and yelling of the different African tribes,...

...children, with other incidental noises, make Kingston at this time a very disagreeable residence.33 This day was the first of the Negro Carnival or Christmas...of the Set Girls, came off upon the breeze loud and strong.34 [T]hey again assembled on the lawn before the house with their gombays, bonjaws, and an ebo...

...frenetic Christmas parties. Michael Scott in Tom Cringle's Log gives some idea of the sonorous chaos: "This day was the first of the Negro carnival or Christmas...girls, came off upon the breeze loud and strong." Almost two centuries later, these same drum rhythms have been released to new local and global audiences...