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without turbulence, they join a fidelity that 
never betrays, and which does not fail to the 
lot of any baftard white. Unluckily this 
race are not very numerous, on account of 
the difficulty of uniting the Hottentot wo- 
men with the negroes, whom they defpife. 
It would have been highly advantageous 
to the public, as well as to the private intereft 
of the planters, to have long ago excited go- 
vernment to encourage the propagation of 
this fpecies ; the facrifice made would not 
have been burthenfome, and the expences and 
money advanced would have been returned 
an hundred fold. 
We no longer live In thofe ages of facred 
ignorance, when all people who were black 
were accounted anthropophagi. The Spa- 
niards themfelves do not novi^ believe, as in 
the time of their barbarous incurfions Into 
Peru, that a pure foul cannot exift but in a 
white body. Travellers, and above all found 
philofophy, teach us that an ugly covering 
may conceal a valuable diamond. Among 
the various negro nations that inhabit the 
w^eftern coaftg of Africa, fome are diftinguifli- 
ed by a more fecial difpofition than others, 
by nobler inclinations, by greater adivlty, 
and 
