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"They come of a fine stock, for they are nearly all the descendants of Loyalist soldiers, who fought for the king in the War of Independence, and were rewarded by grants of land in this island. Their one idea has been to keep the stream of their white blood pure, and they have married in and in till nearly all the whites in the island are related by ties of consanguinity. They are now in such a debased condition that they have lost all trace of their origin, and men with good old English and Scotch names have no idea where the cradle of their race is to be found. Probably their apparent want of brain power is due to in-breeding."

L.D. Powles. The Land of the Pink Pearl: Recollections of Life in the Bahamas, 1888, p. 71.

... I also am amused by the follow up line, though it carries a different kind of snark: "Or was it, perhaps, that all of America possessed of intelligence was enlisted in that struggle on the side of independance, and that these who fought for the "Old Régime" had no brains to transmit?"