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IJlands they are treated very cruelly ; there~ 

 fore no threats make more impreffion upon. 

 a Negro here, than that of fending him 

 over to the Weft Indies, in cafe he would 

 not reform. It has likewife been frequent- 

 ly found by experience, that when you 

 mow too much remifmefs to thefe Negroes, 

 they grow fo obftinated, that they will no 

 longer do any thing but of their own ac- 

 cord : therefore a ftridT: difcipline is very 

 neceffary, if their matter expe&s to be fa- 

 tisfied with their fervices. 



In the year 1620, fome Negroes were 



brought to North America in a Dutch fhip, 



and in Virginia they bought twenty of them. 



Thefe are faid to have been the firft that 



came hither. When the Indians who were 



then more numerous in the country than at 



prefent, faw thefe black people for the firft 



time, they thought they were a true breed 



of Devils, and therefore they called them 



Manitto for a great while : this word in 



their language fignifies not only God, but 



likewife the Devil. Some time before that, 



when they faw the firft European fhip on 



their coafts, they were perfectly perfuaded 



that God himfeif was in the fhip. This 



account I got from fome Indians, who pre- 



ferVed it among them as a tradition which 



they had received from their anceftors : 



therefore the arrival of the Negroes feemed 



to 







