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ompany, he made his slaves tie up the European, and gave 

 him, with his own hands, four hundred lashes, from which 

 he died in a few days. The other person allowed his general 



haracter for barbarity, and added that he was told by a black 

 witness that Ormond, having caught a black wife of his in a 

 criminal conversation with one of his slaves, he burnt them 

 both to death with a tar barrel. 



" This savage had attained to the same trust with 

 the Africans in witchcraft and grigris or charms, and was 

 subject to silly, superstitious fears. Providence, having 

 permitted this man to become an abandoned and successful 

 slave trader, was pleased also to allow him to experience a 

 reverse of fortune. A few years ago, having lose his health, 

 he went to the Isle de Los for the sake of sea air and medical 

 help, leaving his affairs under the care of a Mulatto who was 

 his son. Happening to have recently destroyed one of the 

 towns of the Bagos, which surround his factory, they took this 

 opportunity to retaliate. Ormond's slaves having been little 

 attached to him, favoured the Bagos, and, the place being taken, 

 they shared the plunder. The buildings were all burnt, and 

 the goods in them, amounting, it is said, to a value of ^^30,000, 

 were either destroyed or carried away. Young Ormond and 

 his adherents were put to death. Old Ormond lived to hear 

 the news, but died about a month after." ^ 



The British philanthropists who had created Sierra Leone 

 decided, after thinking more than once about Capes Mount and 

 Mesurado, to establish another colony on Bulama Island (off 

 the mouth of the River Grande). This place had been recom- 

 mended for a European settlement by the Sieur Andre de Briie 

 in 1710. 



Bulama Island was accordingly occupied by the Bulama 



* ^ee a continuation of tills story in Chapter %. 



