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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 j 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 off to the back woods, 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-> 

 pie from the back settlements, with their 

 waggons, who bring flour to Baltimore, 



