AWKWARDNESS OF THE NEGROES. 



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handled by the coachman in New York without difficulty, 

 engaged the devoted exertions of four negroes, in the 

 effort to draw it from the boat, which they effected by in- 

 stalments, after turning it over, as they did every article of 

 luggage, several times, and trying it in various ways and 

 from opposite sides, as if to see if they could not in some 

 way get the advantage of it. They were two hours in 

 transporting our luggage from the boats to our lodgings, 

 not half a mile distant. And as the sun was nearly 

 verticle the whole time, their delays were not a little trying 

 to the tempers of the best of us. 



