Note {93b} — Chapter V · : A LETTER FROM A WEST INDIAN COTTAGE ORNÉE
Reading edition
Stedman’s Surinam, vol. i. p. 118. What a genius was Stedman. What an eye and what a pen he had for all natural objects. His denunciations of the brutalities of old Dutch slavery are full of genuine eloquence and of sound sense likewise; and the loves of Stedman and his brown Joanna are one of the sweetest idylls in the English tongue.