. A voyage to the river Sierra-Leone, on the coast of Africa; containing an account of the trade and productions of the country, and of the civil and religious customs and manners of the people; in a series of letters to a friend in England . ire if they chufe to refer their dif-G 2 - , putes 84 L E T T E R V. putes to him; and that if they do notagree to terminate their differences amica-bly, he will fend for the purrah, as he willno longer look on with indifference, andfee thofe who ought to be friends deftrbyeach other and depopulate their country. Should they, after this meffage, prove re-
. A voyage to the river Sierra-Leone, on the coast of Africa; containing an account of the trade and productions of the country, and of the civil and religious customs and manners of the people; in a series of letters to a friend in England . ire if they chufe to refer their dif-G 2 - , putes 84 L E T T E R V. putes to him; and that if they do notagree to terminate their differences amica-bly, he will fend for the purrah, as he willno longer look on with indifference, andfee thofe who ought to be friends deftrbyeach other and depopulate their country. Should they, after this meffage, prove re-fradlory, the purrah is ordered out 3 and thegrand fundamental article of the purrah lawis, that no blood fliall be fhed while it is inforce 5 fo that the late contending partiesfollow their feveral occupations without rencounters fometime happen, as theirvindidlive and revengeful difpofition willfeldom fufFer them to let flip an opportunityof gratifying their thirfl of vengeance, evenunder the terror of this law. When the aggrefTors are known to thepurrah, they come down in a body of fortyor fifty men armed and difguifed. All per-fons, of every age or defcription, fly befqrethem \ and if they find any perfon out of their it-. L E T T E R V. 85 their houfes, they put them to death, ordifpofe of them in fuch a manner that theyare never more heard of. This is alfo thefate of all tranfgreffors of the purrah law,when feized by the people of this extra-ordinary afTociation. It is impoflible to defcribe the dread andterror this institution (trikes into the com-mon people: they believe the purrah menare poffefled of the power of the devils, andcan do whatever mifchief they pleafe with-out being affeded by it themielves. Theytake away the ftock and provifions, or\vhatever they like, belonging to the na-tives, without the lead interruption or fub-fequent inquiry. In defcribins: the cufloms and mannersof diftant nations, we are under a necefiityof ufing fuch expreffions
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