George Pinckard (1768-1835) was an army surgeon who arrived in the
West Indies in 1796. His letters to a friend were published as
Notes on the West Indies in 1806; a second edition came out in
1816. Having been separated by bad weather from the fleet and
arriving long before his regiment, he had plenty of time to explore
Barbados, which he describes in detail in Volume 2. He is critical
of the treatment of some slaves which he witnesses, but seldom
questions slavery itself, and considers that, under a good owner,
slaves were better off than they would have been in Africa;
however, he found that elderly slaves who could no longer work were
badly neglected. As a doctor, he is interested in illnesses
suffered on the island, such as elephantiasis and yellow fever, and
he also describes an expedition to Dutch Guiana.
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