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a few years, on their arrival. In that cafe the 

 perlbn who buys them, pays the freight for 

 them; but frequently very old people come over, 

 who cannot pay their pafiage, they therefore fell 

 their children, fo that they ferve both for them- 

 felves and for their parents : there are likewife 

 fbme who pay part of their pafiage, and they are 

 fold only for a fhort time. From thefe circum- 

 ftances it appears, that the price of the poor 

 foreigners who come over to North America is 

 not equal, and that fome of them ferve longer 

 than others : when their time is expired, they 

 get a new fuit of clothes from their mailer, and 

 fome other things : he is likewife obliged to 

 feed and clothe them during the years of their 

 fervitude. Many of the Germans who come 

 hither, bring money enough with them to pay 

 their pafiage, but rather fuffer themfelves to be 

 fold, with a view, that during their fervitude 

 they may get fome knowledge of the language 

 and quality of the country, and the like, that 

 they may the better be able to confider what 

 they fhall do when they have got their liberty. 

 Such fervants are taken preferable to all others, 

 becaufe they are not fo dear ; for to buy a Ne- 

 groe or black flave, requires too much money 

 at once ; and men or maids who get yearly 

 wages, are likewiie too dear ; but this kind of 

 fervants may be got for half the money, and 

 even for lefs ; for they commonly pay fourteeen 

 pounds, Penfyhania currency, for a perfon who 

 is to ferve four years, and fo on in proportion. 

 Their wages therefore are not above three 

 pounds Penfyhania currency per aim. This 



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