in his youth was very handsome for a black man, participated in the same horrible custom.
It is said, respecting the negroes of the West India Islands, who are all of African descent, that they consider any restraint laid on their promiscuous sexual intercourse, a hardship of the most grievous and oppressive nature, seeming to center all their happiness in enjoyments of that description. From this fact, it seems that from the time of Herodotus, which is more than two thousand years ago, the negro race, whether in Africa or the West Indies, whether under the influence of unrestrained paganism, or the healing balm of Christianity, are ever the same gross, brutal, fierce, sensual and devilish characters, as a people, in reference to sexual commerce.
Damberger's account of the Africans, who we have before quoted in this work, accords with all we have said above, from whom we take the following in addition. This man says that he fell in with a tribe, who lived beyond the limits of the Caffrees, who were called by themselves, Muhotians. While with this tribe, as he and a negro man, the son-in-law of the chief of the krall, and with whom he then was remaining, were busy in gathering dry wood, in the edge of a wilderness, the former made Damberger a proposal of Sodomy. But as Damberger refused, the African nearly murdered him, being a much stronger man, and yet Damberger made his escape from the woolly-headed monster. While at this krall, the old chief, the father-in-law of the negro above spoken of, took Damberger, on a certain day, with him to another part of the same wilderness, where he was
