1^92- Tsert^s travels. ipr 



walks, often met with troops of young women returning froni 

 the woods, with vefsels on their heads filled with this li- 

 quor. When they approached him, with a politenefs which 

 was highly attractive, they always offered it to him to 

 drink, and bent down upon their knees, that he might with 

 conveniency and ease reach the vefsel. When there were 

 several of them together, they were emulous who (hould 

 have the honour of preference ; and (he who was preferred 

 seemed to be very much flattered by it. To content as 

 many as he could, he used sometimes to taste of the whole. 

 When it is fre(h drawn, he says, this drink iS mild and in- 

 nocent. Preserved beyond two days, it becomes acid and 

 intoxicating. In every case it is refrelhing, and ought to 

 be accounted as a great bounty of nature in these hot cli- 

 ' mates. 



' The air of the country, he says, is pure and healthful, 



I whatever travellers may say of it, whose diseases rather o- 



I riginate in their own intemperance, than the insalubrity of 



I the climate. The heat, also, appears to be a good deal more 



supportable in the interior part of the country than along 



the sea coast. How different a country is this from what the 



people in Britain usually believe Africa to be I Two years 



ago it was represented in the Britifh senate, as a country 



too bad even for our condemned malefactors to inhabit. 



i' We fliall conclude our extracts from the sensible perfor- 



i nance with the following anecdote, which does equal ho- 



I nour to all the persons concerned, Europeans as well as 



Africans. 



Anecdote, 



^' A negro, who had become bankrupt, surrendered himself 



to his crtaitor, who, according to the establiflied custom 



of the country m such cases, sold him to the Danes. Before 



the departure of the vefsel for the West Indies, the son of 



man came to him on Ihip-board. After the tcnderest 



