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3 Jkf^jimmaBmaymgvMiibmBf apaiciaee idudi thflf liold -& dtelUt
4 lioa. The Gnoflr oq^dvea an faenQy 11^^
5 ■qa^bt after cm- anseoaBt of the remaikabla beauty of thdbr mAknu
6 Tl» odMr dam we ganemUj aaaployed in nienial adkaa, lail, in tlie
7 oonntiyf and particularly among the Dooraimoo teman* they aro
8 aliD greatly used in agriculture. They are not, however, lequiead to
9 supplj the {kbce of eattle, as in our ooloniea, but do the same woiic as
10 the fteonen. Their treatment in other. . veapects is aiiiljd^ to thia
11 practice ; they eat with their masters, when in the lower waUcs of
12 life, and are clad in the same manner ; they are allowed to have pro*
13 perty, and their masters make them presents, hu\ v, ives for tliem,
14 Tbey marry the dai lighters of other slaves, and tho onTicr of the girl
15 is entitled to hei- jirice j but I am told lUdi In- generally gives it up
16 to her father, or bestows it on the girl herself; I suppose this must
17 be the price of a wife, which paid on the part of a husband, a[\d
18 does not impair the masiei's li^rhts over his slave; for I camiot sup^
19 pose that die owner would roi\serit to lose her services, without being
20 paid for her, particularly a6 marriage vvoukl utcreafie her value^ sinoe
21 her owner would be entitled to her offspring.
22 h'-i can see no signs of the condition of the slaves employed in agri-
23 adinre hpproviiig totO'viUaiii^ They, for the moat part, lire in
24 . AeimiaiWa hmet but even .when the &ld on MA lh^ imA
25 ia'ao diatknty ea to requite their having a hut or ,»tsiit thaie» they aM
26 noi al'att attached to theaoi), and eie noved .fion field to field ai
27 oooaaita vei]iiiiea| tfaej ire not, indeed,.in anffident munbaia to aUow
28 of thdr bdng attadhicd to particidar qpota. lliey hanre no shaie in
29 the prodhioeof Iheif Ubowt eodara la^t to #oik by the attention of
30 tdie owner alonc^ or of some fieeman intanated in the work The^
31 ■w aeUom beaten* Grown up slaves belonging topeople in mdde-
32 late- circumstaucei) consider themselves aa pert of. diefinnQ^, nd
33 peteeive tha^ they muat laboor in order to enable their master tb
34 anppoit them, as well as to maintain himaelf Female 'Slil^ea are
35 kept us concubines, are maids to the miataaiabf the houie^ or in peoi
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