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" cannot have the child, it fhall not be thine i 
" upon which difcharging his fufee againft its 
" breaft, it dropped down dead on the fpot." 
I learned alfo, that, in order to ainufe them- 
felves, thefe wretches had often placed their pri- 
foners at a certain diftance, and tried who was 
moft expert with their fufees in hitting them* 
I fhould never have done w^ere I to relate all 
the horrid cruelties which they daily commit 
upon thofe unhappy favages who arc under 
their protection; but private confiderations, 
and other very powerful motives, oblige me to 
be filent. Befides, what avails the voice of one 
feeling individual, againft defpotifm and force ? 
I have faid enough to Ihew the charader of 
the planters of this part of Africa, whom the 
inadiivity of government fuffers to go on in 
their excefles, and is even afraid of punifhing. 
In this place are committed all the cruelties 
that hell can invent. In a republican ftate, 
diftin'guifhed more than any other by the fim- 
plicity of its manners, and a fpirit of philan- 
thropy, the nioft villanous iniquity remains 
unpuniflried ; becaufe people do not deign to 
look beyond thofe objed:s which furround 
them. If the governor receives informa- 
tion fometimes, refpedmg thefe horrid abufes, 
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