372 GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. 



Avomen to the embraces of strangers, is confined to those 

 parts of the country where they have had communication 

 with Europeans, Avho have encouraged such connections; 

 though it must be admitted that, on the present occasion, 

 very httle difference, in this respect, appears to have been 

 observed on the part of the women, in places beyond where 

 slave dealers are in the habit of visiting. Captain Tuckey, 

 however, says, that in no one instance, beyond Embomma, 

 did they find the men allant en avant in their offer of the 

 women ; but the Embomma men said, falsely it is to be 

 hoped, that it Avas only their ignorance, and the little in- 

 tercourse they had with white men, that prevented it ; and 

 that any of them would think themselves honoured by 

 giving up his wife or daughter to a white maTi. 



No such licentious conduct it would seem is sanctioned 

 among themselves ; where natives are the only parties 

 concerned, an intrigue with another man's wife entails 

 slavery on both the offenders ; and if the Avife of a 

 Chenoo should go astray, he inflicts what punishment he 

 may think fit on the lady, but the paramour must suffer 

 death. IVIr. Fitzmaurice states, that an instance of this 

 kind occurred while he was stationed at Embomma. The 

 man was first carried to Sherwood, the mate of a slave 

 ship then trading in the river, and offered to him for sale ; 

 but on being rejected, those who had charge of him 

 bound his hands and feet, and, without further ceremony, 

 threw him into the river. 



Moral and Physical Character. — It is a stranoe 

 inconsistency of human feeling that, in all uncultivated 



