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goodnefs allows them : they are likewife clad at 

 their matter's expence. On the contrary, in the 

 Weft Indie^ and efpecially in the Spanijh I/lands, 

 they are treated very cruelly ; therefore no threats 

 make more impreffion upon a Negro here, than 

 that of fending him over to the We/I Indies, in 

 cafe he would not reform. It has likewife been 

 frequently found by experience, that when you 

 ihow too much remiflhefs to thefe Negroes, they 

 grow fo obfdnate, that they will no longer do 

 any thing but of their own accord : therefore a 

 ftrid: difcipline is very neceffary, if their rnafter 

 experts to be fatisfied with their ferviccs. 



IN the year 1620, fome Negroes were brought 

 to North America in a Dutch fhip, and in Virgi- 

 nia they bought twenty of them, Thefe are faid 

 to have been the firft that came hither. When 

 tbe/jwtffl-f, 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 (hip en their coafts, they were 

 perfectly perfuaded that God himfelf was in the 

 fhip. This account I got from fome Indians, 

 who preferved it among them as a tradition 

 which they had received from their anceftors : 

 therefore the arrival of the Negroes fecmed to 

 them to have confufed every thing ; but fince 

 that time, they have entertained lefs dlfagrecable 

 notions of the Negroes, for at prefent many 

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