Note 17 — TO THE RESPECTABLE BODY OF WEST-INDIA PLANTERS and MERCHANTS, THE FOLLOWING POEM IS INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOUR.
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The Angola blacks are the most ferocious. The author does not boast, like Abyssinian Yakoob, “of no ungracious figure”: nor does he, like another beau garçon, Mr. Gibbon, prefix his pleasing countenance to captivate the ladies.