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The White Man A Curiosity

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Day
18
Month
August
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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There are whole diítricts in rnany Europeui countrics where a black man has never een seen, and thcrc are districts in África, .vhere ilie peoplu have never seen a white nnn. The Rev. Mr. Seys, Preéid-ng Slder of the Metlioiist Missiou ín Lijerin, accompanied Gov. Rusvorm, and n jariy of colorad friends from Cape Palmas, to he native tribes and town in the interior du linfMhe summer; taking along a native in tcrprpier, who had the name ofSunday, from lus Christin charncter. Momited on donkeys, they traveüed some 11 miles through extensive rice fieldt;, bclonging to King Freemtin's people, to Gilhbnh, a large native lown, the kiög of whicii, a tal I, fine looking African, named QmA, received then) most cordially. - Kere a colored Methodist school had bepn reccnily fslnblished. The reception of the party, and the scènes which (bllowed, form ai niriunüïg passage in Mr. Seys journal. I will be soen thal a white man was as greal a curiof-ity there is an ourang outang in thi cniintiy. "Render, lli?y had rorely peen a member fhe palé faced race ut uillibol), some, doubtuse, nevrr, until they set oyes on your hnmblf ' ervant. The conseqence yon may jndge. - was reularly ueiet, and Ihnt loo vvitli :i I onrless dejrrre ofcurioíity far nhoad oftli1 i neali.s orGenlalis. Me.), woiipii, and nhilIron crowded nronnd with Ptrffticafiiig offi:ioiifcnpfsnnd funiiliarity. Tliey l'ek iny skin, xp.mined my hair, pulled up my eleeve.-, vntched every movemeut. followod me from )lnce lo place &,n !fed,rcn!ered iheircmiosily iiokI opprei-íivo. Tlie boyn of the chool, ten n number. werc perfeclly del phted. Brolhr Lewis hftd told them wlm it wns he expecod. And iiow ;hnt tilia htnd-nuin liad come, ívery Jittle fellow miisl irt n cliñncé lo I10M !)is haud, one on oi)e side, nnotlicr on Ihe ot'ihr, pon; beltind, olhcrs before, wnlkiiig some i-mes backwnrds ihe more readily lo observe every goettireof ihe strnng-e br'wg as lie moved ibout llie premises. This comiire so fre, qurntly in contact, wonld hv altendeu will) seiiouly con.-Tqiwiices. whrre cutnnenus diseasrs and fil'h are so common. Bnt I wns uü new man for tltis country side, and so ever and anón, unpe:ceivpd by tliem, woiild resort lo n tltorouph a'olntKín ofthe Imndsand ornis, face, neck and hfid 'Ve hnd pfeáchíing in the evPiiin?, b"t the ppoplé b'-haved exceeiinrly disorderly. Thny wre little nccnMomrd lo reíigíoáfl worship, and Intk'eá nitfi ímighpd, and acled the vincootli sava'e lö Uio lifè'. As soon ns I ynve out the first hyinn, nl'tera lemark or lwo explanatory of the charactíT of the exercises we were comniencing and broiher Herring1 had pitched a rune, nnd the fe.v of ns Christinns bean lo sinir. why tliey thought they must sing to, ano snch another yelling I never heard. It required same time, ninch perse veranee, ond yet more patiehee, to make them unders.and that this was a part of the God palavrr whieh vvedid not expect them to join in. Sometliing likc order nnd siience bing restored, we continiied the exercises, bnt with little faith 1 must conress as to much good beinir the re ö!)H. Wliat ndded to the disorder und interruption was a pieco of stupidiiy on the part of one of our native bojs. Nut beinjr nble to find shelter for our Jacks, the fellow had con cludedthere was no harm in tyinjr one donkey in a corner of tbo chape). The houso was badly lighted, only one littie palm oil liimp on the tnble at which the spenker siood. Of cours, the other end of the room was nll bnt onveloperi 10 darkness, ar.d ;is ffié beuclifs did not rench the wlioie ltinytli of the house, ll.e dortky6 corner was nltogether utnnwicfti. In the niidst of Iheexeicises. Jack concluded tic vvotild try the charauter of the bed he waa to occtipv, nucí laid hiint-clf t'mvn comnieiiCing- a teries ofgyninastics that made tlin dust fly in clouds iironnd us. This wos ton much lor the natives and the scène was jndescribuble." ■It turns out, that ihe package which Mr. Black of Georgia, charged Mr. Giddings with liaving franked home, was nothing moro nor less than a chcmise, frnnked not by Mr. Giddings: butthat c.emplary Locofoco, Emery D. Potter, of Ohio, to hls wife, and marked upib doe." Potter refuses to explain, nnd tlirosvs himself upon his dignity. Well, ihai's too good. A fellow who labels his wife's underololhes 5 j)ublic documenta, must have a vast deal of dignity to throw himself on. She ought to prosecute the scamp for aj

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