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CHAPTER HI. 
Mandingoes, or natives of the Windward coast. — Maho¬ 
metans.—Their roars, manners, and persons. — Koro- 
mantyn negroes, or natives of the Gold coast.-—Their 
ferociousness of disposition displayed by an account of 
the negro rebellion in Jamaica in 1760. —Their na¬ 
tional manners, wars, and superstitions.—Natives of 
Whidah or Fida.—Their good qualities. — Nagoes .-— 
Negroes from Benin,—persons and tempers.- — Cani- 
bals.—Natives of Kongo and Angola.—Survey of the 
character and dispositions of negroes in a state of 
slavery. 
OST, if not all the nations that inhabit that 
..VI part of Africa which lies to the northward 
and eastward of Sierra Leone, are Mahometans; 
and following the means of conversion prescribed 
by their prophet, are, as we are told, perpetually at 
war with such of the surrounding nations as refuse 
to adopt their religious tenets. The prisoners taken 
in these religious wars furnish, I doubt not, great 
part of the slaves which are exported from the fac¬ 
tories on the Windward coast; and it is probable. 
