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and defends by itfelf > and theirs is the fpoil or plunder who 

 take it. 



The mothers, fenfible of the difadvantage of a fmall fa- 

 mily, therefore feek to multiply and increafe it by the only 

 means in their power; and it is by their importunity that 

 the hufband fuffers himfelf to be overcome. A fecond wife 

 is courted for him by the firft, in nearly the fame manner 

 as among the Galla. 



I will not fear to aver, as far as concerns thele Shangal- 

 la, or negroes, of Abyffinia, (and, I believe, moll others of the 

 fame complexion, though of different nations), that the va- 

 rious accounts we have of them are very unfairly Hated, 

 To defcribe them juftly, we mould fee them in their native 

 purity of manners, among their native woods, living on the 

 produce of their own daily labours, without other liquor 

 than that of their own pools and fprings, the drinking of 

 which is followed by no intoxication or other pleafure than 

 that of afliiaging thirft. After having been torn from their 

 own country and connections, reduced to the condition of 

 brutes, to labour for a being they never before knew ; after 

 lying, Healing, and all the long lift of European crimes, 

 have been made, as it were, neceflary to them, and the de- 

 lufion cccafioned by drinking. fp kits is found, however 

 fhort, to be the only remedy that relieves them from re- 

 flecting on their prefent wretched fituation, to which, for 

 that reafon, they moft naturally attach themfelves -> then, 

 after we have made them monfters, we defcribe them as 

 fuch, forgetful that they are now not as their Maker crea- 

 ted them, but fuch as, by teaching them our vices, we have- 

 transformed them into, for ends which, I fear, one day will 



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