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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 3: Journeys (search)
an. And out of all those picturesque women (strong and erect), dressed in blue or white skirt and blue man's jacket, barefooted while their husbands wear hairy cowskin shoes, there is not one who over her dark face and great black eyes and profuse hair and nice white kerchief — not one who does not wear a broad straw hat with a red and white cord, precisely like yours, Mary, and yours, Margie, which are awaiting next summer, behind the front door or in the front entry closet. Fayal, December 31, 1855 . . . Have I told you that the one delicious fruit I have tasted is the custard apple, or cheivamoia; it has more positive flavor than the other fruits; though Mary compares it to poor baked apples, flavored with cologne. January, 1856 To crown all, a bright little English girl of ten (Calcutta-born, however) said she thought American people were all black! I have often heard of such ignorance before. There were terrible winter storms at Fayal and many disabled ships wer