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Senaga, whofe Inhabitants are an intermixture of blacks and the two 

 former [/)]. Next to thefe lie the Jaloffs, Phulis, and Mandingo 

 Blacks ; the former of whom are the mofl: humanized and induflrious 

 of any on the coaft; yet they are varioufly defcribed by travelers, 

 fome commending them for amiable qualities, others accufiiig them 

 of the vvorft; fo that, to judge impartially, we are to fuppofe that tiiey 

 poflefs both, and differ only from each other in degree; but the Man- 

 dingoes are reprefented as little better than their Southern neighbours 

 on whom they border. From hence we proceed through the different 

 diftrids called the grain, ivory, gold, and flave coaft, to Angola; all 

 thefe we find occupied by petty Negroe ftates, whofe character is 

 nearly uniform, and who fcarcely deferve to be ranked with the hu- 

 man fpecles. The kingdoms of Angola and Benguela, having been 

 chiefly peopled by the Giagas an interior nation, the inhabitants are 

 fjid to be favages in a fliape barely human. The Giagas were a tribe 

 that poured out of the inland parts, ravaged and plundered almoft 

 every coimtry bordering on the coaft, deluging them like the Goths 

 and Vandals of Europe, and intermixing with moft of the conquered 

 ftates, particularly Angola and Benguela. They are defcribed as a 

 barbarous race, hardened in idolatry, wallowers In human blood, can- 

 nibals, drunkards, praftlfed in lewdnefs, oppreffion, and fraud ; proud 

 and flothful, curfed with all the vices that can degrade human nature,, 

 poflefling no one good quality, and in fliort more brutal and favage 

 than the wild beafts of the foreft. From thefe, the Angolans borrow- 

 ed their horrid cuftom of butcherinp- a vaft number of human vl^lims. 



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at the obfequles of their kings and relations, as well as that of feafting 

 iipon human fiefii, and preferring it to any other ; infomuch, that a 

 dead flave was of more value at their market than a living one: the 

 former practice Indeed obtained in almoft if not all the other pro- 

 vinces on the coaft, and has only been dlfcontmued by the greater ad- 

 vantage that offered, of felling their flaves and captives to the Euro- 



[0] The Moors inhabiting on one fide of the Senaga are wanderers, removing from piace h' 

 place, as they find pallurage tor their eattle. The Jaloffand PhuUs Negroes, fettled on the otliti 

 fide of the fame river, live ia villages. The Moors have fuperiors, or chiefs, of their own free elec- 

 tion; the Negroes are in fubjection to their kings, who are veiled with a very arbitian' power. 

 The Moors are fniall, lean, and ill- looked, but have a lively, acute genius; the Negroes are largL-, 

 fat, and well-proportioned, but filly, and of a flender capacity. The country inhabited by the 

 Moors is a barren defart, almoft deftitute of verdure; that ot the Negroes is a fertile ioll, abound- 

 ing with paflurage, producing grain, and trees of feveral kinds. Le Maire, 



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