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NARRATIVE OF AN 



CHAP, bles, and were expofed to fale, like butchers meat in 



Leadenhall market. And Captain John Kesne, formerly 

 of the Dolphin cutter, but late of the Naimbana fchooner, 

 in the Sierra Leona company's fervice, pofitively aflured 

 me, that when he, a few years lince, was on the coaft of 

 Africa, in the brig Fame, from Briftol, Mr. Samuel Biggs 

 owner, trading for w^ood, iron, and gold-duft, a Cap- 

 tain Dunnigen, with his whole crew, belonging to the 

 Najfciu fchooner, which was her tender, were cut in pieces, 

 falted, and eaten by the negroes of Great Drewin, about 

 thirty miles North of the River *S/. Andrew's; who having 

 torn the copper off her bottom, burned the veflel. 



But from thefe deformities of character I will now re- 

 lieve the attention of the reader, and proceed in juftice to 

 difpel the gloomy cloud, by introducing the fun-fliine of 

 their virtues. 



Their genius has been already treated of, fo has their 

 gratitude ; which laft they carry to fuch a length, that 

 they will even die for thofe who have fliewn them any 

 particular favour. Nothing can exceed the fidelity and 

 attachment they have for thofe mafters who ufe them 

 well, which proves that their ajBTedlion is as ftrong as their 

 hatred. Negroes are generally good-natured, particu- 

 larly the Coromantyn, and thofe of Nago, They are alfo 

 fufceptible of the tender paffion, and jealoufy in their 

 breafts has produced the moft dreadful efFcvSts. The de- 

 licacy of thefe people deferves likewife to be noticed : I 

 do not remember, amongft the many thoufands I have 



feen 



