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press mandate of God*. With an awful regard for such 

 notions, which are the elements of their conversation, it is not 

 surprizing that all the recreations of the newly-imported slaves, 

 should have an immediate reference to religion. The first step 

 they take is to form themselves into associations, or fraterni- 

 ties, which, at the same time that they unite them in the dis- 

 charge of their religious duties, maintain the social relations 

 of the respe£live communities, and enable them to participate 

 generally in their recreations. 



The principal casts of the negroes engaged in menial services 

 in Lima, are ten, namely, the Terranovans, Lucumes, Man- 

 dinguans, Cambundians, Carabalies, Cangaes, Chalas, Hua- 

 rochiries, Congoes, and Misanguans. These names are not 

 all of them precisely derived from the country in which each 

 cast originated, several of them, such as that of Huarochiries, 

 being arbitrary, and others derived from the region where 

 they were first disembarked, such as that of Terranovans. 



All these casts are subje6t to two head corporals, chosen by 

 the communities themselves, who remain in the enjoyment of 

 this post until their death. The ele6lion is holden in the 



* The Dutch writer, Bosman,^ in his Voyage to Guinea, sedlion lo, relates 

 the fable from which the negroes derive their unfortunate destiny. They say that 

 *' God having created negroes and whites, proposed to them two gifts, either that 

 of possessing gold, or of learning to read and write. As he gave to the negroes the 

 first choice, they decided in favour of the gold, leaving to the whites the knowledge 

 of letters, which was granted them. But Being enraged at this cupidity for gold, 

 displayed by the blacks, he resolved at the same time that they should be eter- 

 nally governed by the whites, whom they should be obliged to serve in quahty oi 

 slaves." 



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