squally and blusterous black clouds, and behind dat blackness is a tropical storm a-blowin

squally

and blusterous black clouds, and behind dat blackness is a tropical storm a-blowin.

De squall from a hurricane will not be long fore it will sort of break up in its pass over.

But fore it gets cleared up good, you will see another squall formin, and each time it blowin a little harder. (sighs)

I never forgot dat hurricane in 1926, how de humans was standing by dere door dere lookin to windward.

I never forgot how dem humans looked when dat hurricane come down-dey looked like children.
De humans stood dere in dere door lookin to windward at dat awful sky, and dere faces - dey looked like children.

No! A mon got to have de guts of his opinion!

And my opinion is, dey too many fellas like some dat I got aboard of dis vessel dat don't know nothin and don't care - no self respect! Dass what it is - self respect!

Used to be dat in Caymans a mon respect hisself.

He done his job, took care of his family, all of dat.

He had his land and his own provision ground; he built his own catboat and hung his own nets.
Things like dat. But now dey all gettin like de cook dere, like dat engineer I got - don't motter what de color is no more, dey all actin like colored humans.

- Peter Matthiessen, from Far Tortuga

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