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Law would not hang him for it, yet he under- 

 went a grievous Punifhment ; for (excepting his 

 own Relations) not a fingle Gentleman would 

 ever vouchfafe to converfe with, or pay him a 

 Vifit, after he had committed the horrid Fad:, 

 I cannot help relating, that once upon a Sunday^ 

 an ordinary White Perfon got drunk and ftruck a 

 Negro, who being alfo drunk, returned the Blow 

 with a Stick, and caufed the Blood to trickle down 

 his Temples : The Negro immediately ran away 

 to the Woods, but was foon taken : His Mafter^ 

 (who was our chief Judge) to fhow his Honour, 

 fent for the White Man, oifering him, either 

 to deliver up the Negro to be executed, according 

 to Law, or to give him thirty Pounds, Nevis 

 Money, to fpare his Life, obliging him at the 

 fame time to whip him foundly, in order to deter 

 him from the like for the future -, The White 

 Man accepted the Money, and whipped well the 

 Negro. I know little of their Laws, beyond 

 Hearfay ^ becaufe they were never printed; how- 

 ever, any one may examine them at their Secre« 

 tary's Office. 



lo. A Captain of my Acquaintance, who was 

 in the late Expedition to Carthagena^ aiTures me. 

 That whilfl: he was upon the Ifland of Cuba^ he 

 faw many I'arnntulcey but their Bite is not at- 

 tended with fuch bad Confequences, as the Bite 

 of thofe Italian ones, mentioned in the tenth Pa- 

 ragraph 



