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rica have a kind of poifon with which they 

 kill each other, though the effect is not 

 fudden, but happens a long time after the 

 perfon has taken it : the fame dangerous art 

 of poifoning is known by the Negroes in 

 North America, as has frequently been expe- 

 rienced. However only a few of them know 

 the fecret, and they likewife know the re- 

 medy againft it, therefore when a Negro 

 feels himfelf poifoned and can recoiled the 

 enemy, who might poflible have given him 

 the poifon, he goes to him, and endeavours by 

 money and entreaties to move him to deliver 

 him from the poifon -, but if the Negro is 

 malicious, he does not only deny that he 

 ever poifoned him, but likev/ife that he 

 knows a remedy againft it : this poifon 

 does not kill immediately, for fometimes 

 the fick perfon dies fome years after. But 

 from the moment he has the poifon be falls 

 into a confumption and enjoys few days of 

 good health : fuch a poor wretch often knows 

 that he is poifoned, the moment he gets the 

 poifon. The Negroes commonly employ 

 it on fuch of their brethren as behave well, 

 are beloved by their mailers, and feparate 

 as it were from their countrymen, or do 

 not like to converfe with them. They have 

 likewife often other reafons for their enmi- 

 ty; but there are few examples of their 



having 



