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 a view, no doubt, to make her pass for a negroe.

says further of the country from which she was thus carried away, that the people there had no cloathing but skins, and had no use of fire at all, so that when she came to France, she could not bear the fire, and hardly even the close air of a room, or the breaths of persons who were near her. There were, she says, another sort of men in this country, who were bigger and stronger than her people, and all covered with hair; and those people were at war with her people, and used to eat them when they could catch them.

the hot country to which she was first carried, she says she was re-embarked, and perform'd a very long voyage, during which the master, to whom she had been sold, wanted to make her work, particularly, at a sort of needle work; which obliged her to crouch and then look up; and when she would not work, he beat her; but her mistress, who, she thinks, spoke French, was very kind to her, and would hide her when her master was seeking her to make her work.—That the ship having been wreck'd, the crew took to the boat; but she, and a negroe girl that was on board, were left to shift for themselves. The negroe girl, she says, could not