Some were black, and others were white--of the same class whose huts had just been shown us amid the hills and ravines of Scotland.

We observed that the latter were barefoot, and carried their loads on their heads precisely like the former.

As we passed these busy pedestrians, the blacks almost uniformly courtesied or spoke; but the whites did not appear to notice us.

Mr.C inquired whether we were not struck with this difference in the conduct of the two people, remarking that he had always observed it.
It is very seldom, said he, that I meet a negro who does not speak to me politely; but this class of whites either pass along without looking up, or cast a half-vacant, rude stare into one's face, without opening their mouths.

Yet this people, he added, veriest raggamuffins that they are, despise the negroes, and consider it quite degrading to put themselves on term of equity with them.