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Excerpt from A Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV
The examining the bottoms of 'rivers, and the gullies of torrents, and the'walhing the gold found therein from' the [and and, dirt, with Which it is always mixed, are works performed. By ?aves; who are principally Negroes, kept in great numbers by the Portugmyé for thefe purpofes. The regulation of the duty of th'efie ?aves is fin gular; For they are each of them obliged to furni?r their mafier with'theeighthlpart of an ounce of gold per diem; and if they are eitha. Fo fortunate or induf'rrious as to collect a greater quantity, thedrtrplus is confidered as their own.pr0perty, and they have the libertyrofgdifpofing of it as they think fit. So that it is faid fome Negroes who have accidentally fallen upon _l'lcl'l wafhing places have them-{elves purohafed ?aves, and have lived afterwards in great their original mafier having no other demand on them than the daily fupply of the forementioned eighth; which as the Portugaefi ounce is fomewhat lighter than our troy ounce, may a'
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