20 TRAVELS IN 
paflage Is as follows : The cuftom of going^ 
*' out to hunt runaway negroes, and thofc 
who turn plunderers, as we hunt favage 
" animals, has nothing in it that can offend 
the delicacy of an European. The moment 
when men, ufeful in fociety, abandon their 
fituations, either from a fpirit of libertinifm 
" or of avarice, they degrade themfelves be- 
low brutes, and deferve the moft rigorous 
" treatment." Refleding afterwards on the 
humane, mild, and liberal chara(3:er, which 
has every where been bellowed upon this 
learned man, I again took up his book, and 
found thefereflc£tions: "Laying prejudice afide, 
which of the two is preferable — he who cul- 
" tivates the arts, and invents exceptions con- 
" trary to the rules of nature; or he who, 
" contented with the necelTaries of life, regu- 
lates his condudl according to the max- 
ims of ftridi and fcrupulous juftice I then 
recolleded that the abbe De la Caille had been 
fnatched from letters and the fciences, before 
he had time to put the laft hand to his Journal 5 
and I imputed to the barbarous ignorance of 
the editor that infamous paragraph, which 
could in no manner have fallen from the pen 
of 
