the Truth of what he Delivers, for being one of the Missionaries of his Order into the Southern America upon the Laudable Design of Converting Infidels to Christianity, he Baptiz’d several Infants, which when newly Born, were much of the same Colour with European Babes, but within about a Week began to appear of the Hue of their Parents.  But more Pregnant is the Testimony of our Countrey-man Andrew Battel, who being sent Prisoner by the Portugalls to Angola, liv’d there, and in the adjoyning Regions, partly as a Prisoner, partly as a Pilot, and partly as a Souldier, near 18. years, and he mentioning the African Kingdom of Longo, peopl’d with Blacks, has this passage:[12] The Children in this Countrey are Born White, and change their Colour in two dayes to a Perfect Black.  As for Example, The Portugalls which dwell in the Kingdome of Longo have sometimes Children by the Negroe_-women, and many times the Fathers are deceived, thinking, when the Child is Born, that it is theirs, and within two dayes it proves the Son or Daughter of a_ Negroe,_ which the_ Portugalls greatly grieve at; And the same person has elsewhere a Relation, which, if he have made no use at all of the liberty of a Traveller, is very well worth our Notice, since this, together with that we have formerly mention’d of Seminal Impressions, shews a possibility, that a Race of Negroes might be begun, though none of the Sons of Adam, for many Precedent Generations were of that Complexion.  For I see not why it should not be at least as possible, that White Parents may sometimes have Black Children, as that African Negroes should sometimes have lastingly White ones, especially since concurrent causes may easily more befriend the Productions of the Former kind, than under the scorching Heat of Africa those of the Latter.  And I remember on the occasion of what he delivers, that of the White Raven formerly mention’d, the Possessor affirm’d to me, that in the Nest out of which he was taken White, they found with him but one other Young one, and that he was of as Jetty a Black as any common Raven.  But let us hear our Author himself[13]; Here are (sayes he, speaking of the formerly mention’d Regions) Born in this Countrey White Children, which is very rare among them, for their Parents are Negroes; And when any of them are Born, they are presented to the King, and are call’d Dondos; these are as White as any White Men.  These are the Kings Witches, and are brought up in Witchcraft, and alwayes wait on the King:  There is no man that dare meddle with these Dondos, if they go to the Market they may take what they lift, for all Men stand in awe of them.  The King of Longo hath four of them.  And yet this Countrey in our Globes is plac’d almost in the midst of the Torrid Zone (four or five Degrees Southward of the Line.) And our Author elsewhere tells