Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1866-01-01

aud powerful, seeing that no man cad keep
more than one wife, which to them has q mean
aud shabby appearance. Notwithstsnding all
this, there are true hearts beneath some of
these dark and comely bosoms. We read Of
ono girl who, rather than marry az her chief
would have her, and her inclinations would
not, slew herself, and escaped what to her was
degradation. Added to this impassioned feel. !.
ing there 10 mixture of 6ne modesty and Gu
| riosity about them. One can pardon the Curl
osity which prompts them to take shy glance
at man while bathing; they would see II his
body be really as disgustingly pale as his face,
When their own oountrymeL GO down to the
river, the women avoid the place. There is
no such scornful defiance Of decency In Africa
as may be seen in many Eaglsh watering
places. Some OF the prevailing ideas of mod
ssty are, no doubt, conventional; but such
has been the case In the regions OF the sub
lime and beautiful. When Penthesilea was
dying, the sole anxiety Of that incarnation of
loveliness was that some dear friend would be
good enough to see that her feet were covered
and her bosom exposed.
In matters OF fashion, there 10 quite as
much huttsr In the savage as In the civilissd
mind. The warm, brown beauties (neither
they or the mon arc fpll 'niggers' in this dis-
uict) stand before you, upright, fnely-chisel-
ed columns, graceful as fawbs; the water pots
on their heads become them more than bon
nets would. II 1t be q time OF day when water
pots are not to be borne, the young ladies are
to be seen dressed. or decked In the utmost
rigor Of the prevailing mode. Select any one
Of them, and you will hnd the beads about her
hair, her collars, gorsets and necklaces, her
arnlets, wristlets, chains and clasps about her
legs and ankles, there 10 not one that IL not in
the latest fashion. II 10 true that she has
SCARCELY farthings worth of cloth about her.
But what then7 'C'est Ia mode, ma cherep
and ladies In the French revolution wore little
n ore, and thas was semi transparent.
1t 10 certain that these coy damssls (for there
10 no absence Of native modesty among them)
looked with considerable disgust on the men
10 bags, as the trousered whites were called.
Even the less fastidious matrons quieted their
children by threatening to fetch the white man
to bite them. In their eyes DR.. Livingstone,
busy with wet and dry bulb Thermometers,
was an object Of pity, playing with toys, like
. little boyi" but when they beheld the travel-
lers spreading butter, raw butter on their
bread, their disgust was beyond expression.-
They only use butter, after melting it, to an
noint their head and bodies and they gaued,
as we should case 1t n Muscovite nobleman
were to seat himself 10 Belgrave Square, and
breakfast 10 the open air, on what Muscovite
could only digest tallow candles.
Apart from feelings that arose from contrasts
OF habits, there was universal appreciation
among men and women Of the objects of the
expedition. All longed for the time when
the land should be at rest from war and slavery.
The chiefs who practice both, easily compre-
hend that the sowing and selling of cotton,
and honest trade generally, would be more
productive 10 the end than capturing and sell
ling men. The only obstacles in the way are
the Ajawss, who deal In human fssh, and the
Portuguese, 1t 10 to be hoped, will soon cease,
and the Christian race, who were the Hrst TO
establish and the last TO protect this accursed |
traffic, will speedily abolish 1t, under honest
inward conviction r-aztsrAal- ssud Irresistible |
oompuiBou.-London Athensum.