I asked him if he had done so.

He said he had, and that the religious people were very kind to him, and gave him money, and that a religious lady was going to marry him.

I asked him if he knew anything about the Americans?
He said he did, and that they were very bad people, who kept slaves and flogged them.

"And quite right too," said I, "if they are lazy rascals like yourself, who want to eat without working.
What a pretty set of knaves or fools must they be, who encourage a fellow like you to speak against negro slavery, of the necessity for which you yourself are a living instance, and against a people of whom you know as much as of French or Spanish." Then leaving the black, who made no other answer to what I said, than by spitting with considerable force in the direction of the river, I continued making my second compass of the city upon the wall.
Having walked round the city for the second time, I returned to the inn.
In the evening I went out again, passed over the bridge, and then turned to the right in the direction of the hills.

Near the river, on my right, on a kind of green, I observed two or three tents resembling those of gypsies.