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receiv'd fuch an anfwer as we littl^ expeded 5 for they told us^it was 

 not fullennefs , or flighting the gi-atuity their Mafter befiow'd on 

 them, but they would not accept any thing as a recompence for doing 

 that which became them in their duties to do 5 nor would they have 

 him thinkj it was hope of reward, that made them to accufe their fellow 

 lervants, but an aft of Juftice, which they thought themfelves bound 

 in duty to do, and they thought themfelves fufficiently rewarded in 

 the Ad:. The fubft ance of this, in fuch language as they had , they 

 deiivered,and poov Sambo was the Orator^by whole example the others 

 were led both in the difcovery of the Plot, and refufalof the gratuity* 

 And withall they (aid, that if it pleas'd their Mafter, at any time, to 

 beftow a voluntary boon upon them, be it never fo Height, they would 

 willingly and thankfully accept it : and this ad might have befeem'd 

 the beftChriftians, though fome of them v/eredenyed Chriftianity , 

 when they earneftly fought it. Let others have what opinion they 

 pleafe, yet I am o^this belief 5 that there are to be found araongft them, 

 fome who are as morally honeft, as Confcionable, as humble,as loving 

 to their friends, and as loyal to their Mafters, as any that live under the 

 Sun 5 and one reafonthey have to be fo,is, they fet no great value up- 

 on their lives : And this is all I can remember concerning the Negroes^ 

 except of their games, which I could never learn, becauie they wanted 

 language to teach me. 



As for the J;?^//^;?/, we have but few , and thofe fctcht from other 

 Countries , fome from the neighbouring Idands , 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 

 imp'; ;v for that purpofe ^ as alfo for making Mobbie : the men we 

 ufe for footmen , and killing of filli,vvhich they are good at 3 with their 

 own bovvesand arrows they will go out 5 and in a dayes time,killas 

 much fifh, as will fer ve a family of a dozen perfons,two or three dayeSj 

 if you can keep the fiQi fo long. They are very adive men, and apt 

 to iearnany thing,fooncr thanthe Ne'^/vcj-^ ajndas different from them 

 in Qiape, almoft as in colour^ the men very broad fhoulder'd , deep 

 breafted, with large heads, and their faces almoffc three fquare, broad 

 about the eyes and temples, and (harp at the chin , their skins fome 

 of them brown, fome a bright Bay, they are much craftier, and fubtiler 

 then the Negr.-es 5 and in their nature falfer ; but in their bodies more 

 adive : their women hav e very finall breafts , and have more of the 

 ftape of the £A'r^»pe^;?j- than the Negroes^ their hair black and long, 

 ja great part whereof hangs down upon their backs , as low as their 

 I hanches, withalarge lockhanging over either breaft , which foldom 

 I or never curies cloathsthey fcorn to wear, efpecially if they be well 

 fhap'd 5 a girdle they ufoof tape, covered with little fmooth fhels of 

 fifhes, white, and from their flank of one fide, to their flank on the 

 other fide, a fringe of blew Bugle 5 which hangs fo low as to cover their 

 privities. We had anh/d^an woman, a flave in thehouie, who was 

 of excellent fhape and colour/or it was a pure bright bay^fmall breafts, 

 with the niplesof a porphyria colour, this woman would not be woo'd 

 by any means to wear Cloaths. Shechanc'd to be v/ith Child, by a 

 Chriftian fervant , and lodging in the I/id/a^! houfe j amongft other 



women. 



