Identifier: cruisingamongcar01stod (find matches)
Title: Cruising among the Caribbees, summer days in winter months
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Stoddard, Charles Augustus, 1833-1920
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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no clothes at the pawn-brokers and very few anywhere; they are accumu-lating gold and silver pieces to support them forthe rest of their lives in Hindustan; they will gohome to a blissful Nirvana, or to its equivalent intheir simple imaginations. An agent from Barnum and Baileys GreatestShow on Earth made his appearance while wewere at Port of Spain, and engaged passage fora curious collection of Indians from South America,to which he added as stars for the ethnologicaldepartment of the show, the Hindu priest of thecoolie village, and Julia, a beautiful specimenof a coolie woman. The agent paid these Hindustwenty dollars a month for a six months trip,and contracted to put them ashore at Trinidadat the end of their contract. They were all deckpassengers except Julia, who was allowed a cabinand behaved with as much propriety and conven-tionality as any of the passengers. The ladies onboard were very kind to her, and we were allsorry when she fell into the hands of the reporter * ■•
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BARBAJEE, HINDU COOLIE PRIEST Hindus at tkinidad 189 who thus exploited the arrival of the Madiana inNew York: — With the sword of Adam and Eve before himand the rod of Moses under his arm, the RightReverend Barbajee, high priest of the island ofTrinidad, descended the gang-plank of the steamerMadiana with stately tread yesterday afternoonas she lay alongside the dock of the Quebec Steam-ship Company. Attired in full sacerdotal robes,with the sacred turban upon his head and a smileof trustfulness upon his genial, ebony countenance,Barbajee has come to convert America through thechannel of Barnum and Baileys peripatetic summercamp-meeting, popularly known as the Greatest Showon Earth. Barbajee was not unattended. Twenty-one men and women and four children from theWest Indies and South America came with himon the steamer, under the care of Mr. Baileys agent.There were five Accawai Indians and four Warri-hoones from the Orinoco River, four Caribs, fourHindu Creoles, two Hindus, and thr

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