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and have been fabricated for the atrocious 
purposes of deception. Take the reverse 
of this picture, and you will perceive the 
genuine character of the native African ; 
compassionate, generous, hospitable to 
those who do not come to injure or de- 
stroy him ; truly grateful for benefits con- 
ferred, and not yielding in this cardinal 
virtue to the most benevolent pupil of the 
sciences. Without ever having entertained 
the most distant consideration of a Supreme 
Being, or the existence of a future state, 
his virtues are dictated by the genuine 
feelings of his nature ; and expecting no 
reward, nor dreading any punishment in 
a future life, for his conduct in this, stands 
a pre-eminent character on the roll of vir- 
tue and philanthropy. I speak of these 
people as I found them ; and from this 
knowledge I form an opinion that, so far 
from their interrupting any settlement of the 
nature I have before alluded to, they would 
hail the foreigner, when they were con- 
vinced of his justice, as their friend, their 
protector, and deliverer. 
I have before observed (continues the 
