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cient to maintain themfelves and their families ; 

 but, in other rerpe(fls, they were Co ill provided witU 

 foreign commodities, that they walked bare-footed 

 when at home, and never wore (hoes except on Sun- 

 days, when they went to mafs, early in the morning, 

 to the church of Pamplemouffes, which you fee in 

 the bottom. It is, neverthelefs, much farther than 

 to Port-Louis ; but they feldom vifited the city, 

 for fear of being treated with contempt, becaufe 

 they were drefled in the coarfe blue linen cloth of 

 Bengal, which is worn by flaves. /After all, is 

 public refpedability half fo valuable as domeftic 

 felicity ?/lf thcfe ladies were expofed to a little 

 fuffering vvhen abroad, they returned home with 

 fo much more additional fatisfadion. No fooner 

 had Mary and Domingo perceived them from this 

 eminence, on the road from FamplemoufTes, than 

 they flew to the bottom of the mountain, in order 

 to afTift them in re-afcending it. They read in the 

 eyes of their flaves, the joy which they felt at feeing 

 them again. They found in their habitation, 

 cleanlinefs and freedom, bleflings which they owed 

 entirely to their own induftry, and fervants ani- 

 mated with zeal and affedion. As for themfelves, 

 united by the fame wants, having experienced evils 

 almofl: (imilar, giving to each other the ttnder 

 names of friend, companion, and lifter, they had but 

 one will, one intereft, one table. They had every 

 thing in common. And if it fometimes happened, 



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