. A Collection of voyages and travels [microform] : some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English : in six volumes with a general preface giving an account of the progress of navigation from its first beginning. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. ^..â j:^i; â 'I Tv ::^ m A i i'i > 'i-' ' 272 j4 Defcription of the Book III. n^ poor creatures expreffed to be fo known by a long courfe of experience that ^^^'comc together agiin, tho' in bondage, the Englijh particularly every year lofe For feveral days lucceflively they could not forbear (h
. A Collection of voyages and travels [microform] : some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English : in six volumes with a general preface giving an account of the progress of navigation from its first beginning. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. ^..â j:^i; â 'I Tv ::^ m A i i'i > 'i-' ' 272 j4 Defcription of the Book III. n^ poor creatures expreffed to be fo known by a long courfe of experience that ^^^'comc together agiin, tho' in bondage, the Englijh particularly every year lofe For feveral days lucceflively they could not forbear (hedding tears of joy, and con' tinuaily embracing and one ano- ther ; which moving me to compaflion, I ordered they fliould be better treated a- board than commonly we can afford to do it, where there arc four or five hundred in a fhip; and -it Mariinko, I fold them all together to a confiderablc planter, at a cheaper rate than I might l)ave expcifled, had they been dil'pofeil of feveraliy â¢, be- ing informed of that gentleman's good great numbers in the paHage, and Tome Ihips two, three, and even four hundred out of five hundred (hipped in Guinea. Before we leave this fubjeft, the follow-^f^j, ing obfervation may not be unacceptable.»*X,., The Ifraelites had the power of life and""" death over their (lives, and that right was then common to all nations; tor captivity was derivetl from the right ol war, when indead of killing the enemies it was judged more advifeable to lave their 'ives, and make ufeot their fervice. It was nature, and having laken his word, that then I'uppofed, that the conqiieror always lie would ul'e that liiinily as well as their cirtuinlhinces would permit, and I'ettle them in (bine by themfelves. I have ellewlure fpoke of the manner of valuing and rating the flaves among the RLtcks, and Ihall conclude this chapter, which proves to be one of the longi R, with an o kl remark; which is, That many rtfervcd to himfclf the
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