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there were about two hundred Welsh peo- 

 ple landed at Baltimore ; and I rode down, 

 it being the time when I wanted hands to 

 get potatoes, pull corn, &c. There are a 

 Welshman and woman who keep a tavern 

 at the Point at Baltimore : and when I 

 went into the house, I saw something I did 

 not understand. These tavern-keepers had 

 the disposal of them all : — such a one> with 

 so many children, must be so much ; and 

 another so much. I did not go there with 

 an intention to buy these people as slaves, 

 I did not know at that time what it meant; 

 nor should I have understood it at all, if I 

 had not met with these captains. I had 

 supposed that those people had wanted to 

 hire themselves by the day or week. I 

 heard afterwards that these people were 

 soon swept ofFto the backwoods, about three 

 hundred miles distant from the place of sale. 

 It astonished me till now, how they accom- 

 plished such a long journey. The peo- 

 ple from the back settlements, with their 

 waggons, who bring flour to Baltimore, 



