EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



On the eftate VoJJenberghy in Surinam, were born two 

 vjhite negroes^ whofe parents were both perfecSlly black ; 

 the one was a female, fent to Paris in 1734 ; the other a 

 boy, born in Majch 1738. And in 1794, a fimilar woman, 

 Emelia Lew/am, was exhibited in England, whofe children 

 (though fhe is married to an European) are all mulattoes. 

 The fkin of thefe people is not of the European white, but 

 more refembles chalk; their hayr the fame; their eyes 

 are often red *, and they fee very little in the fun-fhine, 

 neither are they fit for any kind of labour ; while their 

 mental faculties, I have been told, ufually correfpond with 

 the debility of their bodies. 



With refpedt to the Jhape of the African negroes, it is 

 from head to foot certainly different from the European 

 mould, though not, in my opinion, in any degree in- 

 ferior, prejudice being laid afide. Their ftrong features, 

 flat nofes, thick lips, and high cheek bones, may appear 

 deformities to us, and yet amongft themfelves may be ef- 

 teemed the reverfe ; their bright black eyes, and fine 

 white teeth, we are forced to admire ; and one decided 

 advantage in a black complexion is, that all thofe languid 

 pale fickly-looking countenances, fo common in Europe, 

 are never exhibited among them, nor are the wrinkles 

 and ravages of age equally confpicuous ; though I mult 

 confefs that when a negro is very ill, his black changes 

 to a very difagreeable fallow olive. 



* This is well known to be the cafe &c. that are perfedly white, to have their 

 ■with many other animals, as rabbits, mice, eyes bhod'eokured. 



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