i6 TRAVELS through 



when old and infirm, worfe than their dogs and 

 horfes*. 



As to the inhabitants of the French idands in 

 the Well Indies, I can afTure you they are very 

 generous towards ilrangers : a perfon may even 

 travel in the interior parts of the country, with- 

 out the leaftexpence to himfelf; if his counte- 

 nance be free and open, and his behaviour de- 

 cent, he is fufficiently qualified for a favourable 

 reception in every habitation. 



It is with great juftice that we reckon the 

 Creoles noble in France : their fentiments are fo 

 noble and delicate in every flation of life, that 

 they perfectly deferve that appellation. 



Man is every where the fame ; he is equally 

 fufceptible of good and evil -, education corre6ls 

 his vices, but does not give him virtue ; the 



fame 



* i have feen a planter, whofe name was Chaperon, who 

 forced one of his negroes to go into a heated oven, where 

 the poor wretch expired ; and his jaws being fhrivelled up, 

 the barbarous Chaperon faid, I believe the fellow laughs, 

 and took a poker to llir him up. Since that timt he is 

 grown the fcare-crovv of all the -fiaves ; who, when they 

 have done fomething amifs, are threatened by their mailers 

 with, / ^illfdl ths to Chaperon^ 



