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do not defe:ve to be extirpated any more than the Eng- 

 lifli themfelves. For one white flave that we have here, 

 the Englilh have ten black, ones in the Weft Indies, 

 and they ufe their flaves much more cruelly than we do 

 ours. And v.'hat though we fometimes make the Englifh 

 failors flaves ; they are much better here than at home, 

 for they are nothing at the beft but flaves. You know, 

 Tom, how both you and your brother Jonathan were 

 knocked down and prefled before you could hand a rope ; 

 and how, being crammed into the hold, your brother died, 

 of the bad air ; but you being ftronger, was faved, by 

 the blefling of God. You know how you have fliewii 

 me the marks of the flogging which the captain ordered 

 jou, and all for falling from the main yard, and killing 

 his whore's lap dog, though fure I am he might have 

 had pity on your broken collar bone. And belides, we 

 do not mifke the flaves fight for their matters, and they 

 never come by any wounds, as the Englilhmen who 

 are prefled for failors do. We only make them work 

 as they would be obliged to do, or ft arve, at home. 

 Their viftuals are of the beft ; and for fruit, the beft 

 Englifli lord in the land might wiih to get what they 

 throw away ; fo that our dealings are mercy, compared 

 with your treatment of the poor niger^, which both 

 you and I have feen at Kingfton, and which you will 

 remember, by this fame token, that when we got a- 

 board again, we wifl:ied they v.ould rife and cut all the 

 white men's throats. So you muft take care of taking 

 up wrong notions to my difadvantage ; for we juft do 

 here to the whites what the whites do to the blacks in 

 the Weft Indies'; only we ufe them more merifuUy, 



I am, Sec. 

 Algiers, 3d February 1790. 



