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niotherj two of the moft refpedable ladies 

 we have met, fmce we left England, in order 

 to pleafe " little bab," amufed themfelves 

 by flapping, prefling, fiiaking about, and 

 playing with the long black breafts of the 

 flave, with very indelicate familiarity, before 

 the whole company ; and without feeming to 

 be at all fenfible, that it was, in any degree, 

 indecent or improper ! 



In all corners of the flreets we meet 

 with the filthy fight of pairs of negroes, of 

 both fexes, fitting and lying about, with their 

 heads in each other's laps, picking out the 

 fwarms of vermin which occupy their wool. 

 This, as we had been told on board the 

 flave fliips, feems to be a feaft of delight to 

 the blacks, whether in freedom, or in fla- 

 very. 



One day in pafl!lng along the flreet, we 

 chanced to fee a fight between two women 

 of colour, one a negro, the other a mulatto. 

 The crowd, about them, was very great, and 

 European curiofity induced us to wait the 

 refult ; but we have m defire to witnefs fuch 



