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<298 African Memoranda. Unfavour- portant point gained was the favourable alteration which we able opinion of the natives were enabled to make in the minds of the natives relative to our favour? the character of white people. order to keep up for Mr. Hood, the only surviving subscriber, some degree of respect, which he appeared to me to be fast losing, I always had him to dinner with me, which occupied the hour between one and two. Besides, during the seventeen months that I remained on the island, I had occasion, and indeed was obliged, to practise more occupations and professions, (though I never before had a tool of any kind in my hand,) than would otherwise have ever been the case, in the whole course of my life. To wit: 1st. Carpenter.—In all its branches, from that of making a broom-stick, to that of 4 building a house. 2d. Joiner.—In such works as making chairs, tables, stools, shelves, and cup boards, &c. 3d. Sawyer.—Which I found the most difficult of the whole. 4th. Brick-maker. Sth. Tanner.—When I left the island I had just finished tanning a number of goat , skins, for the bottoms of a set of chairs. 6th. Thatcher. 7th. Chandler.—I made candles, both dips and moulds. 8th. Rope-maker.—I was obliged to make a great deal of rope before I could leave z the island with the cutter. Sth. Sail-maker. 10th. Caulker. 11th. Plasterer. 12th. Carcase butcher.—It more than once fell to my lot to skin and cut up a bullock, which had been killed for the colonists. Among those which are dignified by the name of professions may be reckoned, 1st. Engineer.—If the fixing upon the ground, and tracing the lines of a square fort, with a bastion at each angle, will confer it. 2d. Architect.—Insomuch as the drawing the plan, elevation, and section of the block-house, ere it was commenced, can entitle me to it. 3d. Surveyor. 4th. Apothecary.—With this difference, in practice, that I never made a bill. Indeed that practice was confined to one disease only, fever. To each man that came to me with it, I gave four grains of tartar emetic, or fifteen of ipecacuanha, which having operated, he had as much bark