SlQ THE AFRICAN ASSOCIATION. 
But though the native benevolence of the female 
savage might sometimes soften his distress, yet 
he seems often to have endured the extremities 
of wretchedness. I am accustomed to hard- 
" ships," said he, on the morning of his depar- 
ture to Africa ; " I have known both hunger 
and nakedness to the utmost extremity of hu- 
man suffering : I have known what it is to 
" have food given me as charity to a madman ; 
"and I have at times been obliged to shelter 
" myself under the miseries of that character, to 
" avoid a heavier calamity : My distresses have 
\ " been greater than I have ever owned, or ever 
" will own, to any man. Such evils are terrible 
" to bear, but they never yet had power to turn 
"me from my purpose. If I live, I will faith- 
" fully perform, in its utmost extent, my engage- 
** ment to the Society ; and if I perish in the at- 
" tempt, my honour will still be safe, for death 
" cancels all bonds,'* 
Mr LucAS, the next person to whom the ex- 
ploring of the internal regions of Africa was en- 
trusted, had been sent, when a boy, to Cadiz, to 
be educated as a merchant. On his return, he 
was captured by a corsair of Sallee, and carried to 
the court of Marocco, where he remained three 
years before he obtained his freedom. After his 
release, being sent to Gibraltar, he was appointed 
