NARRATIVE OF AN 



" the officer of the college brought the body of a cruel 

 " wretch, who had murdered the fon of one Mafter Scotj 

 " a furgeon of good note in this city. This wretch was 

 " of a very truculent countenance and afpe6l ; his hair 

 was black and curled, not very long, but thick and 

 bufhy^ his forehead little above an inch high; his 

 brows great and prominent; his eyes fet deep in their 

 " fockets ; his nofe crooked, with a round knob or button 

 ^* at the end, which alfo fomewhat turned upwards ; on 

 his upper lip he had fome quantity of black hair, on 

 " his chin very few, llraggling, black and ftifF; and his 

 " nether lip was as big as three lips. Such was his face : 

 " but the greateft deformity was his feet, and that almoft 

 to admiration ; for they were both cloven, but not 

 alike. One foot was equally divided between four and 

 five inches deep into two toes, jointed like other men's 

 toes, but as large each of them as half the foot could 

 ^« make them, with nails proportionable. The left foot 

 was divided likewife in the middle, but the divifion 

 " was not above three inches deep, or fcarce fo much ; 



the one half, which was towards the body, made one 

 ^' large toe, with a nail proportionable, like the inward 

 ^* half of the right foot ; but the outward half was com- 

 pounded of two toes, yet growing clofe and faft to- 

 gether. This monftrous fliape of a man I have thought 

 good to give this relation of, from certain knowledge, 

 *' for there were a thoufand witnefTes of it prefent." 

 With the languages of the African negroes I am but 



little 



