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a party of four, almofl; naked, females work- 

 ing in a cane-field. Curlofity would not al- 

 low us to pafs on without devoting to them 

 a moment of particular regard. We, there- 

 fore, went a little oiF the road to approach 

 them nearer ; when we found that they 

 were labouring with the hoe, to dig, or 

 cut up the ground, preparatory to the plan- 

 ting of fugar ; and that a ftout robuft-looking 

 man, apparently white, was following them, 

 holding a whip at their backs, Obferving 

 that he was the only one of the party who was 

 idle, we inquired why he did not partake of 

 the tafk, and were told, in reply, that it was 

 not his bufmefs— that he had only to keep 

 the women at work, and to make them feel 

 the weight of the whip if they grew idle, or 

 relaxed from their labour. 



Impulfive nature flufhed at this infor- 

 mation, and we felt fliocked and indignant, 

 at feing a man, apparently, ftrong enough to 

 do as much work as the v/hole of the four, em- 

 ployed in the fole occupation of brandifliing 

 the whip over thefe poor degraded females^ 



