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The negroes are "generally fad thieyes | 

 they appear to know no fenfe of honefty. 

 Ignorant of all moral principle, they fteal 

 "without feeling any fenfe of wrong, and with- 

 out any apprehenfion, except that of being de- 

 tected. The planters are obliged to employ 

 one or two of the mod trufty of them in the 

 capacity of watchmen to guard, by clofe and 

 conftant attention, the orchards, plantain walks, 

 provifion {tores, and the like, from the depre- 

 dations of their own and their neighbour^ 

 Haves, Although they have no remorfe in 

 ftealing whenfoever and wherefoever oppor- 

 tunity offers, ftill they feel peculiarly prone 

 to robbing their mailers ; and this they do 

 not even confider a theft, as is too evident 

 by an expreflion very common among them, 

 viz. " Me no tlef him : me take him from 

 Ma£a" ' 



