26g. 



mho were dancings fet the nympli In African 

 ftep and figure. Wowlki was refponfive and 

 they danced, cordially, together ; hut foon 

 finiflied by footing it^ in quick ftep, from the 

 ring, happily enfolded in each others' arms ; 

 to the great difappointment of poor Sambo^ 

 who, no doubt, thought to regain his part- 

 ner as foon as the foldier had grown tired in 

 the dance. 



Near this merry green happened a fad 

 fracas between a negro man and woman, in 

 confequence of gaming ; which is a very pre- 

 vailing paffion among the blacks. The vfo- 

 man had won from the man three dollars, and 

 fome words having arifen between them, a 

 fcuffle enfued, in which the man had torn off 

 the few clothes, that covered the ebon dame, 

 and expofed her, in nakednefs, to the 

 crowd. She, in return, tore and mal-treated 

 his* breeches ; and the difpute now was v/he- 

 ther the woman, having been the fuccefsful 

 adventurer, ought not to make reparation 

 for the further injury fhe had committed. 

 The man exclaimed, with fad violence, re- 

 ^ardinig the additional lofs, fuftained by the 



