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fometlmes mix, appears from children of a mixed 

 complexion, which are fometimes born. 



IT is likewife greatly to be pitied> that the 

 mafters of thefe Negroes in moft of the Englijh 

 colonies take little care of their fpirittial welfare, 

 and let them live on in their pagan darknefs. 

 There are even fome, wlio would be very ill 

 pleafed at, and would by all means hinder their 

 Negroes from being inftru&ed in the docflsi.ies 

 of Chriftianity, to this they are partly led by the 

 conceit of its being (hameful, to have a fpiritual 

 brother or fifter among fo defpicable a people ; 

 partly by thinking that they fhould not be able 

 to keep their Negroes fo meanly afterwards ; and 

 partly through fear of the Negroes growing too 

 proud, on feeing themfelves upon a level with 

 their mafters in religious matters. 



SEVERAL writings are well known, which 

 mention, that the Negroes in South America 

 have a kind of poifon with which they kill each 

 other, though the effect is not fudden, but hap- 

 pens a long time after the perfon has taken it : 

 the fame dangerous art of poifoning is known by 

 the Negroes in North America, as has frequently 

 been experienced. However only a few of them 

 know the fccret, and they likewife know the re- 

 medy againft it, therefore when a Negro feels 

 himfelf poifoned, and can recoiled the enemy 

 who might poffibly have given him the poifon, 

 he goes to him, and endeavours by money ind 

 entreaties to move him to deliver him from the 

 poifon ; but if the Negro is malicious, he do/s 

 not only deny that he ever poifoned him, but 

 likewife that he knows a remedy againft it : this 



X 4 poifon 



