The _Gold Coast_, _Popo_, and _Whidah_ Negroes are born in a part of Africa that is very barren; a small bullock carried thither from another part, when fatted, will sell for near 32_l._ a sheep for 20_s._ four small fowls for 4_s._ sterling, and all other provisions in proportion, except fish; and their coarse kind of bread, which is their chief food. On that account, when able to take the hoe in hand, they are obliged to go and cultivate the land for their subsistance. They also live hardily; so that when they are carried to our plantations (as they have been used to hard labour from their infancy) they become a strong, robust people, and can live upon the sort of food the planters allow them; which is, bread made of Indian corn, and fish, such as herrings and pilchards sent from Britain, and dried fish from North America, being such food as they lived upon in their own country. Indeed they live better in general in our plantations; and they are always ready, on their arrival there, to go to the hard work necessary in planting and manufacturing the sugar cane. On the other hand, the _Gambia_, _Calabar_, _Boney_, and _Angola_ Negroes are brought from those parts of _Africa_, that are extremely fertile, where every thing grows almost spontaneously; and where a bullock may be bought for less than 20_s._ a sheep for 1_s._ and a dozen of fowls for the same. They have every other necessary of life in great plenty. On that account, the men never work, but lead an indolent life, and are in general of a lazy disposition and tender constitution; for the necessary work among them is done by the women, which is little more than fetching wood to dress their victuals: so that when those people are carried to our sugar islands, they are obliged to be nursed, to be taken great care of, and brought to work by degrees. The planters, when the _Gold Coast_ and _Whidah_ Negroes were carried to the sugar colonies, before the _French_ interfered in that trade, found there was not a sufficient number to extend their cultivation, by carrying on all the different planting business, and therefore were accustomed to purchase those tender (the worst sort of) Negroes, and employ them for household servants, to raise corn, aloes, look after cattle, bring them up to trades and easy labour, knowing them unfit for the hard work necessary in sugar-plantations. The Negroes of the river _Gambia_ are better than the last-mentioned; both of which are much more proper for the North American planters, as they have plenty of provisions at a small expence, and, on that account, can use them to gentle labour, and inure them, by degrees, to work with the same sort of food they were accustomed to in their own country.