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| when they earneftly fought it. . Let others have what, opinion they 
| language to teach me. 
| Privities. We had an Ivdian woman, a flave in the houfe, who was|_ 
| Chriftian fervant , and lodging in the Indian houfe , among(t other 
receiv'd fuch an anfwer : as welittle expected'5 for they teld us,it was 
not fullennefs ; or flighting the gratuity. their Mafter beftow’d on 
them, but they would not accept any thing asarecompence for doing 
that which becarne them in their duties. todo, nor would: they have 
him think, it was hope ofreward, that made them to accufe their fellow | 
fervants, but an act of Juftice, which they thought. themfelves bound 
in‘duty todo, and they thought themfclves futticiently rewarded in. 
the Act. © The fubftance of this,-in fuch language .as they had, they 
delivered,and poor Sambo was the Orator;by whofe example the others 
were led bothin tkedifcovery of the Plot, and refufal of the gratuity. 
And withall they faid, that if it pleas‘d their Mafter, atany time, to 
beftow a voluntary boon upon them, be it never fofleight, they would 
willingly and thankfully accept it: and thisa&t might have befeem’d 
the beft Chriftians, though fome of them were denyed Chriftianity , 
pleafe, yet lam of this belief;,that there are to be found amongft them, 
fome who areas morally honeft, as Confcionable, as humble,as loving 
to theif friends, and as loyal to their Mafters; asany that live under the 
Sun3-and one reafon they have to be 0, is, they fet no great value up- 
on their lives : And this is all Ican ber concerning the Negroes, 
except Of their games} which I could never learn, becaufe they wanted 
ind thofé fetcht ftom other | 
Countries; fome from the neighbouring Iflands, fome from the 
Main, which ‘we make flaves : the women who are better vers’d in 
ordering the Caflavie and making bread , then the Negroes, we 
imploy tor that purpofe , as alfo for making Mobbie : the men we 
ufe for footmen, and killing of fith,vvhich they are good at5 vvith their 
ovvnbowvesand arrovvs they vvill go out; and in a dayes time, killas 
As for the Indians, we have but few’, ai ia 
| much fith; as wvill ferve a family ofa dozen perfons,tvvo or three dayes, 
if you can keep the fifh fo long. They are very active men, and apt 
to-learnany thing,fooner than the Negrces 5 and as different from them 
in fhape, almoft asin colour;.the men very broad fhoulder’d, deep 
breafted, with large heads, and their faces almoft threc {quare, broad 
about the eyesand temples, and fharp at thechin, their skins fome 
of them brown, fome a bright Bay, they are much craftier,and fubtiler 
then the Negrees 5 and in their nature falfer ; but in their bodies more 
active : their women have very fmall breafts, and have more of the 
thape of the Ewropeans than the Negroes, their hair black and long , 
a great part whereofhangs down upon their backs , as low as their 
hanches, witha large lock hanging over either breaft , which feldom 
or never curles + cloaths they {corn to wear, efpecially ifthey be well 
thap’d 3a girdle they ufeof tape, covered with little {mooth thels of 
fifhes, white, and from theirfank of one fide, to their flank on the | 
other fide, a fringe of blew Bugle 5 which hangs fo low as to cover their’ 
of excellent fhape and colour, for it wasa pure bright bays{mall breafts, 
with the niples of a porphyrie colour, this woman would not be woo'd 
by any means to wear Cloaths. Shechanc’d to be with Child, by a 
women, | 
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