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here ; for we often fee parties of negroes,, 

 boatmen, and failors, feud indolently abouS 

 the bay, employing their oars by way of fails ^ 

 They fix the handles of them at the bottom 

 of the boat, and fetting them up, two on 

 each fide, with the flat furface to the vnnd^ 

 colledl a fufficiency of the breeze to carry the 

 boat along without the trouble of rowing;^ 



The captains of the Guineamen often re^ 

 lieve their fliips' company from the duty of 

 the boat, by training fome of their black cargo 

 to the ufe of the oar. — Indeed fo ufeful do 

 many of the negroes become, during the 

 palfage, and the time they are detained oa 

 board, that their afTiftance is of much fervice 

 in working the veifel. We occafionally fee 

 the mafter of a flave fhip rowed afliore by 

 four of his naked Africans, who appear aa 

 / dexterous, in the management of the boat, 

 as if they had been for years accuftomed to it. 



Often we obferve the captains parading 

 the ftreets, accompanied by parties of their 

 prime flaves — ^apparently with the Intentioa 

 of exhibiting them to the eye of the public, 

 in found ftate and gQod condition. This 



