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dkional violence : and fuch of the fpedators 

 whofe olfadories have no relifli for African 

 odours, are fadly annoyed by the high 

 effenced exhalation which fpreads itfelf 

 around. 



As I vras looking on at one of thefe dances 

 I obferved a foldier's wife, from the north 

 of Tweed, gazing with curiofity and aftonifli- 

 ment, amidft the throng : and feeing her 

 features marked with diflatisfacSion and fur- 

 prize, I afked her vvhat fhe thought of the 

 African dance. " Oo/," faid fhe " its am unco 

 'may & fpendmg the fahhath uight.^^ — And on 

 my afking her if there were any as pretty 

 woman in the Highlands of Scotland, fhe, 

 inftantly, replied " whether or not — tbe^^ 

 Jmell better* 



Prefently a foldier palRng that way^ 

 and obferving the dance, afked a mulatto who 

 was flanding by, for a cud of tobacco, and 

 twifling it between his lower lip and his 

 teeth, forced his way through the crowd, 

 into the middle of the ring ; and there pla- 

 cing himfelf, betweu the negro and the giri 



