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feared It with a red hot Iron, and applied to the 

 Burn, half of a Lime or Baftard Lemon, which 

 in two or three days time, brought out the whole 

 Crebouga, juft like the Core of an Apple : Oxford 

 was not lame for it above fixteen days : But to 

 let you the better into the Cafe, I muft acquaint 

 you, that his Parents had the French Pox, under 

 which circumftances his Blood was tainted, and 

 fhowed its Corruption, by his breaking out with 

 the Yaws or running Sores all over, when he was 

 about lix or i^^^n years old in his own Countrv, 

 viz. Morumbo : and the Crebouga is the laft ill 

 Symptom of that Diftemper among Negroes. 

 The Yaws we ufually cure by a gentle Salivation. 

 9. I had almoft forgot to inform you. That a 

 Negro cannot be Evidence, in any refpedl, againft 

 a White Man: If he llrikes a White Man, the 

 Law condemns him to loofe the Hand he ftrikes 

 with ; and if he {hould happen to draw Blood, he 

 muft die for it. If a White Man kills a Black 

 one, he is not tried for his Life ; however, the 

 Law obliges him to pay Thirty Pounds, Nevis 

 Money, to his Mafter, for the lofs of his Slave. 

 You will fay, that thefe Proceedings are very 

 defpotick : But if you confider, that we have 

 near ten Blacks to one White Perfon, you muft 

 own them to be abfolutely neceffary. I had a 

 Pariftiioner, who in a barbarous manner mur- 

 thered one of his own Negroes > and though the 



Law 



