AFRICA. ^ ioi 
toR from an hundred and twenty to an hun^ 
dred and fifty dollars each. The Indians are 
more particularly fought after, for ferving in 
the houfe and in the town. Malays are alfo 
feen here, who are the moft intelligent, and, 
at the fame time, the moft dangerous of flaves. 
To afTaffinate their mafter or miftrefs, is in 
their eyes but an ordinary attempt ; and, in 
the five years which I refided in Africa, I 
have feen this crime often repeated. They 
march to the fcafFold with the utmoft calm?- 
nefs and indifference. I heard one of thefe 
wretches tell Mr. Boers, that he was happy in 
having committed his crime ; that he was 
well aware to what kind of death he would 
be condemned; but that he ardently wifhed to 
fee his life brought to a conclufion by it, as he 
would then foon return to his own country. 
I am aftonifhed that fo violent a prejudice 
does not caufe ftill greater difafters. 
The Creole flaves at the Cape are the moft 
efteemed : they are always fold at double what 
is given for the reft ; and when they are ac- 
quainted with a trade, their price becomes 
exorbitant. A cook, for example, cofts from 
eight to twelve hundred rix-dollars, and others 
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