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force, as one of their chief aversions is the neces- 

 sarily being long confined to one certainly not 

 fragrant room. 



March 13. 



r The Reporter of the African Institution asserts, 

 in a late pamphlet, that in the West Indies the 

 breeding system is to this day discouraged, and 

 that the planters are still indifferent to the preserv- 

 ation of their present stock of negroes, from their 

 confidence of getting fresh supplies from Africa. 

 Certainly the negroes in Jamaica are by no means 

 of this Reporter's opinion, but are thoroughly 

 sensible of their intrinsic value in the eyes of the 

 proprietor. On my arrival, every woman who had 

 a child held it up to show to me, exclaiming, — 

 "See massa, see ! here nice new neger me bring for 

 work for massa ; " and those who had more than 

 one did not fail to boast of the number, and make 

 it a claim to the greater merit with me. Last 

 week, an old watchman was brought home from 

 the mountains almost dead with fever ; he would 

 neither move, nor speak, nor notice any one, 

 for several days. For two nights I sent him 

 soup from my own table ; but he could not even 

 taste it, and always gave it to his daughter. On 

 the third evening, there happened to be no soup at 

 dinner, and I sent other food instead ; but old 

 Cudjoe had been accustomed to see the soup ar- 

 rive, and the disappointment made him fancy him- 

 self hungry, and that he could have eaten the soup if 



