another conteft. You can have no concep- 

 tion of th^ brutal and favage means which 

 were ufed by thefe women to injure each 

 other. Not only biting, pinching, flapping, 

 and fcratching were employed ; but with the 

 more horrid vengeance of the American 

 gouchers, and in the moft cold and deliberate 

 manner, did each of thefe females thruft her 

 thumb or fingers into the nofe, mouth, and 

 eyes, of the other, flriving, in all the bitternefs 

 and cruelty of favage nature, to tear to pieces, 

 to blind, or to maim her opponent. 



I feel that this letter will be more 

 painful than amufing to you ; and almoft fear 

 that you will charge me with having looked 

 out for unpleafant and diftrefsful events ! But 

 I may aflure you that, without going in 

 fearch of them, they have accidentally fallen 

 in my path ; and, as they are flrong features, I 

 cannot reconcile to myfelf to withhold them 

 from you, merely becaufe they are not of fo 

 pleafant a nature as I could have wifhed. 

 It is my objed, faithfully, to lay before you 

 the fads I meet with, whether happy or 

 \inhappy, in order that you may be enabled 



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