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    Biographical Accmtnt of the Negro Arigeio Solimann . [ Translated from " Literature desNegres , " by M . Grejpire . ( p . ISO . ) Paris , 18 O 8- ] rp HOUGH Angelo Solirnami

    X never published any thing , * he merits one of the chief places among Negroes distinguished by a Jiigh degree of cultivation , and extensive knowledge , and still more , by moral excellence .

    He was the son of an African prince , the sovereign of Gangusilang , and his femily name JMagni-Famori . Besides the little Mmadi-Makd , ( which was Angelo ' si name in his own country ) his f arenas * had a younger child , a daughter . , He used to relate with what defertenee his father was treated ,

    being surrounded by a great number ofservarits . Like all the children of princes in that country , -he had characters imprinted \ on each thigh , and ldng , did he indulge the hope that , he should be known by ihose characters and discovered to kis parents . The recollections of childhood .

    r - i f * ' i - * It is nay du | : y publicly to mention the names of those to whom I owe the'biography of this ekthnable African , who was first mentioned to me by Dr . GalL On tl ^ e application of my countrymen of Hautefort ^ attached here to the foreign relationsy and Dodun , fir » t £ e 4 retary to the French legation to

    la Austria , gre ^ t zeal was discovered sati sf y my curiosity . * Two respectably ladies of Vienna , Mvd& 'tsxtde Stutf and Ma < jlaute dePiclcr paid % he greatest ^ ttcatioa to it , c ^ refuUy collecting the accounts £ ur ? fc $ be 4 ty the friends of the , ^ eceajsed ^ . ngeloj

    * rom thea ^ e jnaje rials thiij iatere ^ mffj gW ^ ve \) eui been . comp iled . * tyMr ! W French tramlatidji it lofes mapa eleganc * style ; for ^ damc de Picler , wfo > $ *** it up in German , posse ' ssed the tar ^ ^^ t of writing equally wel ) la prose and ****** I have great pleasure in expressing to tfafe obliging person * pay J ust grati-• Wc . * .

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    especially of h 13 first attempts to draw the bow , in which he surpassed his companions , the remembrance of the simple manners , and the fine sky of his country often produced in hip

    mind a pensive pleasure , even to old age . He could never sing his country's ? songs , whicli * his excellent memory had retained , without being deeply affected .

    It appears , from the recollection * of Angelo , that his . nation had theil at * tained to some degree of civilization ^ His father possessed many elephants , and even horses , which are rare it } those countries . Money was uW

    known , but * the commerce of exchange Was regularly conducted , and they had sales by Ruction ; They worshipped the stars , and practised cir ^ cumcision-. v Two families of whites resided in th £ cpuiitry .

    Authors who have published their travels mention perpetual wars among the nations of Africa , of which the objects ate revenge , plunder , or t |> e tyiost shamfeful species of avarice , the conqueror haling his prisoners to the nearest market , to sell them to th ^

    whites . A war of this kind ; against the people of Mmadi MqM , broke out so unexpectedly that his father had no suspicion of danger . The child , at the age of seven years , one day , standinff'by the side or his mother , who was

    Buckling his sister , they suddenly tterceiVed t&xe clajsh of arms and-hurling of arrows . TJi e ; grandfather of Mmack Mak 6 > seizdd with terror , rushed into th ^ nouse crying out the eneiny is at hand . Fatum ^ started . Up alarme , ^ the father seized his arnis . and the

    ijittH bpy , 'tefrifled , fled with the swlfU n < es ^ of « jn arrowl Hi $ mother called tohrm loijAW , irirbe ' re are you going Mmadi M yh $ & The child answered , there ioftere-phd mils . In advanced age he often reflected ott the imjpor \ ant meaiiing oj * those ^ wbrds . Having fled from the houseiiii looked back an ? M

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    No . CXXVU ] JULY , 1816 . [ Vol . XI .

    History And Biography.

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1816, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2454/page/1/