Notes on the West Indies, vol. 1 of 2
LETTER LV.
_Visit to an Indian town. Nonchalance of the inhabitants. The Laba. Parental feeling of an Indian woman. Fate of a youthful Indian lover. Habits of the Indians. Construction of their dwellings. Pyeis and yowahoos. Visit to a huge tonquin-bean tree. The Kiwihi. Return of the party to Mr. Heynemann’s, and to Arends_ 497