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in full vigour there. Considering that negroes 

 were imported into the colonies of the new world 

 by tens of thousands, brought prisoners from the 

 remotest recesses of Africa, we might suppose 

 that some of these, if not many of them, were now 

 and then, in the habit of feeding upon their fellow- 

 oreatures. But, I could not learn from captains 

 of Guineamen, that they had ever detected a man 

 amongst the slaves, in the passage from Africa 

 to America, feeding on his dead comrade. Such 

 a repast, the captains assured me, was utterly 

 unknown. 



I bad proof positive, that negroes have a 

 yearning for dogs' flesh. 



On a plantation about twenty miles up the river 

 Demerara, there lived an Irish gentleman, of a 

 merry turn, and of noted hospitality. Having just 

 received from Scotland an uncommonly fine terrier, 

 he was wishful to try its metal. A lieutenant 

 of artillery, being himself a great dog-fancier, was 

 duly informed of this dogs arrival: and he was 

 invited to pass a day in the Irish gentleman's 

 house ; and to bring his own terrier with him, 

 in order that the two dogs might join in mortal 

 combat. Myself and three others were asked to 

 join the party ; and we all embarked at Stabroek, 

 in the Irish gentleman's tent-boat. 



