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tives ; but instead of remembering and re- 
venging the wrongs they and their prede- 
cessors had endured from the savage whites, 
they made a fire to dry and refresh us ; 
they slaughtered a bullock, which they 
gave us for our subsistence ; they con- 
ducted us to a spring of the most limpid 
and wholesome water, and when we were 
enabled to travel, furnished us with guides 
through the deserts of their country. Such 
was the conduct of a people who have been 
described as barbarians, possessing no other 
semblance of the human character than 
what they derive from their formation." 
The Captain, after paying what he very 
properly considered a debt of gratitude to 
his sable benefactors on the continent of 
Africa, proceeds to draw the attention of 
the president to those commercial benefits, 
which may be obtained by establishing a 
colony from America, on that part of the 
coast where the ship he commanded was 
unfortunately wrecked, or on some other 
part of the southern continent, which may 
from its fertility invite a settlement. I 
