regard to decency either of manner, or per- 

 fon. Their bodies were naked, fave a bit of 

 blue cloth folded round the loins, and 

 brought between the legs, from behind, to 

 fatten before. As they ftooped down, to 

 dip the linen in the river, many of them ex- 

 pofed the crowded and callous efcars of re- 

 peated punifliment ; and when they moved 

 themfelves in rubbing the clothes, or beating 

 them upon the large ftones before them, 

 their long flaccid breafls fell over their arms, 

 or hung in loofe mafles of corrugated fkin 

 flapping upon their bodies, fo as to cre- 

 ate a mod difgufting and abhorrent appear- 

 ance. 



It has alfo happened to us to witnels 

 another fpecies of indelicacy among the negro 

 women, which is extremely ofFenfive to an 

 European eye. Regardlefs of decency, and 

 of the crowd they meet, they are fometimes 

 feen drawing their naked, pendulous breafts 

 as they walk along, and fpilling their milk 

 upon the public ftreets, 



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