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their master, as they started with their load, but the sound is the 
same. 
Rppeated several times. 
»'l"" 1111 scveiiii nines. ^ 
Ve na ea - a man - yan a a Par a can tar sen lior a. 
g^glpipi 
The coffee-carriers go along in large gangs of twenty or thirty, 
singing — 
Another. 
One half take the air, with one or two keeping up a kind of a hum 
on the common chord, and the remainder finish the bar. 
These slaves are required by their masters to obtain a certain sum, 
according to their ability, say from twenty-five to fifty cents a day, 
and to pay it every evening. The surplus belongs to themselves. 
In default of not gaining the required sum, castigation is always 
inflicted. It is said that the liberated negroes who own slaves are 
particularly severe and cruel. The usual load carried is about, 
two hundred pounds weight, 
Mr. Hale, our philologist, found here a field of some extent in 
his department, through the slave population, and it afforded more 
opportunities for its investigation than would at first appear probable. 
Vast numbers of slaves have been, and are still imported annually 
into this market; and as very many of the same nation or tribe 
associate together, they retain their own language, even after they 
have been in the country for some years. It may be seen by the 
most cursory examination that they are marked in such a manner 
as to serve to distinguish their different races. Some have little of 
the distinctive negro character, and others more of it than any 
human beings we had seen. Mr. Hale obtained from a gentleman 
of Rio the following information respecting them, with°their dis- 
tinctive marks; the accuracy of which we had an opportunity of 
