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n6on" we arrived at a very poor farm, where 

 we could procure no refrefhment, except a little 

 milk : we therefore liad recourfe to the provi* 

 lions we had brought with us, and in the even*» 

 ing found ourfelves at a farm not much better 

 than that we had lately left ; here we pafled the 

 night. 



Next morning, about ten, we oame to a river, 

 which we forded, and about noon came to fome 

 fifhermen's huts on the banks of the river, near 

 its mouth ; we were again compelled to dine on 

 our own provilions, and then forded the river a 

 fecond time. About five we arrived at a cludcr 

 of ruined huts, occupied by a few negroes, and 

 a new unfiniflied houfe at a fmall diftance. 

 Here we found nothing but fome beef, milk, and 

 eggs, and the negroes huts were fo ruinous and 

 filthy, that it was impoilible to enter them, 

 without difguft ; the new houfe was fhut up, 

 the windows were barred on the infide, one door 

 was bolted within, the other locked, and the 

 owner, who was gone to another eftate he occu- 

 pied at a confiderable diflancc, had the key with 

 him. Notwithflanding I had often lain in the 

 fields, I did not feel myfelf at all difpofed to 

 do fo when a good houfe prefented itfelf, but 

 the difficulty was how to get in. We could not 

 force the windows without doing injury, on ac- 

 count of the llrength of the bars; but an open- 

 ing 



