36 spilsbury's voyage to Africa^ 
first fall of his upper-jaw, the blood gushed out at the boy's 
nose, mouthy and eyes. The one [ saw at Tasso, would make 
a spring at a stick, and if he missed it, his jaws gave a loud 
bnap. The teeth are extremely sharp and pointed, and stand 
at some distance from each other. The captain held a stick to 
hioi with a brass feiule^ which he marked with his teeth, and 
shook violently. 
The large breasts of the black women, are, generally speaking, 
owiiig to their hard labour, as ihey always beat the rice, and do 
all kinds of drudgery ; the men only hunting or making instru- 
ments of war. During the time I was here, the slaves worked 
extremely hard, beating nee for our passage, &c. One hand- 
sonie gnl, whose i)reasts, before she began, were round and 
prominent, in two or three days, by the continual jarring, began 
visibly to fall. She was conscious of this, herself, and would 
frequently look at them, lift them up and sigh. From this cir- 
cumstance^ 1 have seen young women, whose breasts were en- 
tirely iiabby, appearing only like a large pendulous piece of skin. 
It is tiierefore ownig to their little nourishment and tlie hard la- 
bour which they endure, that vve may ascribe the difference be- 
tv^ een the African and European women in this pai ticular. 
1 have mentioned already, that the laws of adultery among 
them are very severe. A man was caught in bed with one of the 
king's wives, and Mr. B. was, in consequence, obliged to send 
him in the Anderson to be sold, As to the woman, she being 
the daugiiter of a king, was only punished by being sent home to 
her friends. 
Every night the native men begin their dances, which are very 
laborious; they take hold of hands and dance about to the sound 
of then' drum ; while each pair, alternately, throw their right and 
left leg over the other, and when this is done, they then throw 
over the left and right. Another dance. is something like that in 
Goree; — they have also an obscene dance, from the description 
of which, no satisfaction could be derived. These people, all 
of whose dress consists of a small piece of cloth rouîid the waist, 
are very saving, and often return to tb.eir own country with great 
riches, but their king generally compels them to make over to 
bim the best part, and if they hide it, and will not confess where, 
they are roasted over a slow lire. They carry their dead on a bier. 
With a hue piece of cloth or chintz over it. When they come to 
the ground they make a halt, place it in the earth head down- 
v.ard in a perpenriicular direction, and then fill up the ground 
with stones, over which they place half oi the canoe belonging to 
the deceased, jjuring my stay at this ^island, 1 was sent for on 
board a brig by au Ainencau gentleman who was sick, I'roui 
