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There was in the road a flave-fhip, lately 

 arrived from Mozambique ; four hundred 

 negroes, which formed its cargo, were already 

 landed. It was a very melancholy light to ob- 

 ferve thefe miferable creatures, moft of them 

 fcorbutic after a very fhort paflage, crowded 

 together in three fmall apartments, whenee they 

 were to be fhortly carried on board, in order to 

 go and fupport, by the fweat of their brow, the 

 luxury of fome rich Weft Indian. This trade 

 had been carried on in a place where dogs are in 

 great requefr. The perfons who traffic in human 

 fieih do not blufh to own that it often happens, 

 that they get two or three negroes for one fine 

 dog. 



I employed the day of the 2 2d in viiiting 

 Lion Mountain. This mountain, which takes 

 its name from the figure which it exhibits at the 

 diftance of a few myriameters at fea, affords 

 a foil little favourable to vegetation. I there 

 remarked, almoft every where, even upon the 

 fea-fhore, a hard fteatites, of a grayifh colour, 

 and fo parched, that this excurfion procured me 

 but a very fmall number of plants. 



On the following day I vifited the Devil's 

 XVlountain. The impetuous fouth-eaft winds, 

 the force of which is much greater at the decli- 

 vity of this mountain than any where elfe, have 

 juftly procured it that appellation. The_ charming 

 <s 3 yalley 



