BOOK III. CHAP. r. 383 



fcem to affetft the Blacks with any other than the mofl dcHcious 

 lenlations. 



At their meals they tear the meat with their talons, and chuck 

 it by hand fulls down their throats with all the voracity of wild 

 beafts ; at their politeft entertair)ments they thruft their hands all 

 together into the dilL, fometimes returning into it what they have 

 been chewing. They ufe neither table-cloths, knives, forks, plates, 

 nor trenchers, and generally fquat down upon the bare earth to their 

 repaft. 



Their hofpitality is the refult of felf-love; they entertain ftrangers 

 only in hopes of extrading fome lervice or profit from them ; and 

 in regard to others, the hofpitality is reciprocal; by receiving them 

 into their huts, they acquire a right of being received into theirs 

 in turn. This in fadl is a fpecies of generofity which gives no 

 decifive evidence of goodnefs of heart, or rectitude of manners, 

 except in thofe countries where no advantage is expeded to be 

 made by the holl. 



In fliorr, their corporeal fenfations are in general of the groffeft 

 frame; their fight is acute, but not corred ; they will rarely mifs 

 a ftanding objedt, but they have no notion of fliooting birds on the 

 wing, nor can they projedl a ftraight line, nor lay any fubftance 

 fquare with another. Their hearing is remarkably quick ; their 

 faculties of fmell and tafte are truly beflial, nor lefs fo their com- 

 tr.crce with the other fex ; in thele ads they are libidinous and 

 ihamelefs as monkies, or baboons. The equally hot temperament 

 of their women has given probability to the charge of their ad- 

 mitting thefe animals frequently to their embrace. An example 

 of this intercourfe once happened, 1 think, in England [/>] ; and 

 if luft can prompt to fuch exccfiTes in that Northern region, and in 

 defpight of all tiie checks which national politenefs and refined 

 fentiment'5 impofe, hov/ freely may it not operate in the more ge- 

 jiial foil of Affic, that parent of every thing that is monftrous in 

 nature, wliere tliefe creatures are iVequent and familiar j where the 

 pall'ions rage without any controul ; and the retired wilderneis pre- 

 fents opportunity to gratify them without fear of detedion ! 



[■^] Ti is f-iiil the laily conceived by her paramour, whicli gave occafwi to the Stat. 25 Hen. VIII. 

 which U'Sf purpofi-ly exttiided to woircn. a? well ci= mci-.. 



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