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upon her with much haughtinefs, and 

 treated us as dependents and flaves. He 

 was not more engaging in his carriage 

 towards us ; he would give no part of 

 what he had to fpare to any but captain 

 Cheap, whom his intereft led him to pre- 

 fer to the reft, though our wants were often 

 greater. The captain, on his part, con- 

 tributed to keep us in this abjeft fitua- 

 tion, by approving this diftinftion the 

 cacique (hewed to him. Had he treated 

 us \vith not quite fo much diftance, the 

 cacique might have been more regardful 

 of our wants. The little regard and at- 

 tention which our neceffitous condition 

 drew from captain Cheap, may be im- 

 puted likewife, in fome meafure, to the 

 effefts of a mind foured by a feries of 

 crofles and difappointrnents ; which, in- 

 deed, had operated on us all to a great 

 neglect of each other, and fometimes of 

 purfelves. 



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