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Voltaire
corsaires nègres. Notre patron fit de grandes plaintes, il leur demanda pourquoi ils violaient ainsi les lois des nations. Le capitaine nègre lui répondit: Vous avez le nez long, et nous l'avons plat; vos cheveux sont tout droits, et notre laine est frisée; vous avez la peau de couleur de cendre, et nous de couleur d'ébène; par conséquent nous devons, par les lois sacrées de la nature, être toujours ennemis. Vous nous achetez aux foires de la c?te de Guinée, comme des bêtes de somme, pour nous faire travailler à je ne sais quel emploi aussi pénible que ridicule. Vous nous faites fouiller à coups de nerfs de boeuf dans des montagnes, pour en tirer une espèce de terre jaune qui par elle-même n'est bonne à rien, et qui ne vaut pas, à beaucoup près, un bon ognon d'Egypte; aussi quand nous vous rencontrons, et que nous sommes les plus forts, nous vous fesons labourer nos champs, ou nous vous coupons le nez et les oreilles.
On n'avait rien à répliquer à un discours si sage. J'allai labourer le champ d'une vieille négresse, pour conserver mes oreilles et mon nez. On me racheta au bout d'un an. J'avais vu tout ce qu'il y a de beau, de bon, et d'admirable sur la terre: je résolus de ne plus voir que mes pénates. Je me mariai chez moi: je fus cocu , et je vis que c'était l'état le plus doux de la vie.
FIN DE L'HISTOIRE DES VOYAGES DE SCARMENTADO.
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