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Their little ones are not black, but reddifh brown when firft born. 
From feveral Countries they are of a deeper or paler colour, when 
the fame perfons are paler than ordinary ‘tis a fign of ficknefs, Their 
colour is heightened by anointing with Palm, or any other Oil, 
When a Guinea Ship comes near Jamaica with Blacks to fell, there is 
great care taken that the Negros fhould be fhav’d, trim’d, and 
their Bodies and Hair anointed all over with Palm-Oil, which adds 
a great beaucy tothem. The Planters choofe their Negros by the 
Country from whence they come, and theirlook. The Blacks from 
the Ea/ft-Indies are fed on Flefh and Fifh at Home, and therefore 
are not coveted, becaufe troublefome to nourifh, and thofe from 
Angola run away from their Mafters, and fancy on their deaths 
they are going Home again, which is no lucriferous Experiment, 
for on hard ulage they kill themfelves. 
When I was at Liguanee I was told that at the Plantation of 
Captain Afudfon there was a young Woman white all over, born 
of a black Mother. I had the Curiofity to go and fee her, and 
Mrs. Hfudfon did me the favour to fend for her, She was twelve 
years old, and perfectly white all over, middle fiz'd, broad fac'd, 
flat nos'd, ill favour’d, and countenance’ like a Black. Her Hair 
was fair and white, but not lank like ours, or half Jank, half 
woolly like thofe of Mulattos, but fhort, woolly, and curled 
like thofe of the Blacks in Guinea, Her Mother had been 
bought by Captain HAudfon, on her landing in Jamaica, about 
eleven weeks before her delivery of this Daughter. Her Mo- 
ther was perfectly black, and related that once before in Guinea, 
her own Country, fhe had been brought to Bed of a white Boy, 
by a black Father, °Tis very likely the Mother>might have been 
fold on this occafion, for as Juan-dos Santos tellsus that thefe white 
Children, born of black Parents, are worfhipped in thofe parts 
of Ethiopia-he lived in, as the Off-{pring of the Gods, fo in others, 
if my memory does not fail me, they are put to death for being 
reputed the Children of the Devil. I was told that in Nieves 
two fuch were born, and faw my felf in England a Black, a 
Servant of Mr. Birds, which was mottel'd or {potted with white 
{pots in feveral parts of his Body and Penis. The Skins of fuch are 
whiter than ours, and their Hair is alfo whiter. “This is common 
to almoft all Creatures, that the colour of the Hair is black or white 
as the Skin is on which it OrOws. 
Their Phyfick confifts for the moft part in Cupping with Cala- 
bafhes on the pain’d place.. They firft apply the Calabafh with fome 
Chips or Combuftible matter burning in it, when that is pull’d off 
they cut the place with Scarifications, and then apply the Cupping- 
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