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fome time after he met them again looking very 

 fad and difcontented with the reception they had 

 found. Gentlemen, fays he to them, you are 

 not recommended to me, and you did not rely 

 on me. I am your fellow-creature, and you wane 

 afliftance ; come to my houfe, you will there find 

 a table and a lodging at your fervice ; and during 

 that time perhaps fomething may oiler, that will 

 fuit your inclinations. The young people were 

 enraptured, and accepted his offers •, they fol- 

 lowed him to his houfe, where they found a 

 table fpread for twenty perfons, and ferved by 

 as many Negro fervants. One of the new co- 

 mers afked whether they were at a wedding, 

 and was furprifed to hear that this was nothing 

 extraordinary. The mailer of the houfe kept 

 them in his houfe for fome time •, his advices, 

 and the pains he took about them, foon procu- 

 red them very advantageous fituations. 



You will eaiily believe, Sir, that fo good a 

 mailer was loved and refpeded by all his flaves, 

 who looked upon him as upon their father. 

 This man was very far from being animated by 

 the brutal avidity of fome planters, that force 

 their wretched ilaves to fuch hard labour, that 

 they refufe to marry, in order to avoid genera- 

 ting ilaves to fuch mailers, Y/ho treat them, 



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