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in a fmall houfe, it being only neceflary to 

 hang up as many hammocks as there are per- 

 fons. Neither beds, meets, nor blankets arc 

 required, for the hammock includes them all, 

 and ferves as bedftead, mattrefs, and coverlet 

 into the bargain. " 



The next morning I rofe at an early 

 hour, and made a walk before breakfaft, to 

 vifit what is here termed the " yaw-houfe 

 a kind of hofpital placed at a diftance from 

 all the other buildings, for the accommodationof 

 fuch of the negroes as may be affli&ed with that 

 hideous and diftreffing malady — the yaws. Here 

 I faw fome of the moft ftriking pi&ures of hu- 

 man mifery that ever met my eye — fad obje&s 

 of compaffion, anddifguft ! Not to commiferate 

 their fufferings were impoffible, but their of- 

 fenfive and wretched appearance creates a 

 fenfe of horror on beholding them. Of all 

 the unfightly difeafes which the human body 

 is heir to, this is perhaps the worft. , Imagine 

 to yourfelf a group of meager fickly-looking 

 negroes, with their bones almoft piercing their 

 unhealthy obfufcate fkins, and their bodies 

 befet with ragged noxious fores, and ulcer- 

 ous excrefcences, and you will have fome idea 



