PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 4I 



*' ately fet off to trace your fteps. He conduâied 

 *' me, always wagging his tail, to the Black River, 

 *^ There, I was informed by a planter, that you had 

 " brought a fugitive flave back to him, and that 

 ** he had pardoned her at your interceffion. But 

 " what a pardon ! he fhevt/ed her to me, faftened, 

 ** with a chain round her foot, to a log of wood, 

 ** and an iron collar, with three rings, round her 

 ** neck. From thence. Fidèle, following the fcent, 

 ** conduded me to the Mount of the Black River, 

 *^ where he again flopped, and barked as loud as 

 ** he was able. It was on the brink of a fountain, 

 " near a palm-tree, which had been levelled, and 

 " a fire not quite extinguifhed : at length, he con- 

 *' dudted me to this place. We are at the foot 

 " of the mountain of the Three Paps, and it is 

 ** ftill four good leagues from our dwelling. Come 

 ** on, eat, and recruit your ftrength." He then 

 prefented to them a cake, fome fruit, and a large 

 gourd bottle, filled with a liquor compounded of 

 water, wine, lemon-juice, fugar, and nutmeg, 

 which their mothers had prepared to ftrengthen 

 and revive them. Firginia fighed at the recollec- 

 tion of the poor Have, and at the diftrefs of their 

 mothers. She repeated feveral times, ** Oh, how 

 ** difficult it is to do good !'* 



While Paul and fhe were refrefhing themfelves, 

 J)omingo lighted a fire, and looking about among 



the 



