Mi/cell. Subj. CXI y Fol. VI. No. 68- 



SCENE IN AFRICA. 



Our young readers have already often heard 

 of the unhappy Negros in Africa, whom the 

 prejudice of Europeans places on the lowest 

 step of culture , almost level to the beasts, 

 treating them as slaves in the most unhuman 

 manner. However these despised black men 

 of Africa have also higher dispositions of 

 mind, as the present plate will show us. In 

 the foreground sits under a Bananatree a 

 young Negro -woman, meditating upon the 

 play of Uri so much belov'd by them. This 

 play consists of a chest divided into many 

 compartments , where two female players, 

 each with 2i bowls, alternatively and accor- 

 ding to certain rules fill the compartments. 



Who first applies all the 21 bowls, has won. 

 This play is said to be more difficult, than 

 our game at draughts, and one sees in Africa 

 young Negro -women from their early youth 

 sitting alone , and by meditation exercising 

 themselves in this play. 



In the background we view a proof of 

 the corporal addrefs , viz- the manner, in 

 which the Negro-Slaves fetch down the juice 

 got in bottles by incisions in the palm-trees, 

 or the palm- wine. The Negro -Slave slings a 

 circle of bark around himself and the palm, 

 and shoving forward this circle over the 

 sprigs of the tree, he climbs up and down 

 by clinging his feet to it. 



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