Ss6 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



and defends by itfelf, and theirs is the fpoil or phmder wha 

 uke it. 



The mothers, fenfible of the difad vantage of a fmall fa- 

 mily, therefore feek to muhiply and increafe it by the only 

 means in their power; and it is by their importunity tha$ 

 the hufband fnffers himfelf to be overcome. A fecond wife 

 is courted for him by the firft, in nearly the fame manner 

 as among the Galla. 



I WILL not fear to aver, as far as concerns thefe Shangalw 

 hi, or negroes, of Abyffinia, (and, I believe, moft others of the 

 fame complexion, though of different nations), that the va^ 

 rious accounts we have of them aa-e very unfairly ilated^ 

 To defcribe them juftly, we fliould fee them in their native 

 purity of manners, among their native woods, living on the 

 produce of their own daily labours, without other liquor 

 than that of their own pools and fprings, the drinking of 

 which is followed by no intoxication or other pleafure than 

 that of affuaging thirft. After having been torn from their 

 own country and connedlions, reduced to the condition of 

 brutes, to labour for a being they never before knew ; after 

 lying, fleahng, and all the long lift of European crimes,, 

 have been made, as it were, neceilaiy to them, and fhe de- 

 lufion occafioned by drinking fpirits is found, however 

 ihort, to be the only remedy that relieves them from re- 

 ceding on their prefent wretched fituation, to which, for 

 that reaibn, they moft naturally attach themfelves i then, 

 after we have made them moBftcrs, we defcribe them as 

 fuch, forgetful that they are now not as their Maker crea- 

 ted them, but fuch as, by teaching them our vices, we hava 

 transformed them into, for ends wliicli,. I fear, one day will 



not 



