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had on board the vciTel that carried us thither 

 feveral J.rvanefo, one of wItoiti was in irons. His 

 poor wife was featcd bcfide him ; fne had in- 

 fiftcd on foliowing h:ni in his exile. Wc w'cre 



c '"cr'.vhcirncd \\iih grief on learning from the 

 rKuth of this unliappy man the caufc of his 

 ruin ; he told us, that his naniC was Piromon- 

 |2;oio, and that he belonged to the village of 

 Calibongou, which is under trie dependency 

 c.f the govcri-iment of Samarar.g; he had paid 

 th.rce !;i:ndrcd and fifty rix-do!lars to be one of 

 the ma:i/}rts of that village, but anoihicr inhabi- 

 tant had fupplantcd him by giving a larger 



fum J aiid thofe who had received his money 



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inficad of redoring it to him^ got rid of him by 

 banifiiii'g liim to Ceylon, y t:cre he was to be 

 r;ii:t up like a great many ori-er inhabitants of 

 tiiC Mohiccas, yl\om the iJutch fiicrifice to 

 tli-ir revenge, or to tiieir pretended polirioal 

 i:i:::rcrts. Among the wrongs that had iicen 

 heaped on his head, the}- accufed hing lie tiAd 

 us, c;f being a iorrcrcr : this poor man ac- 

 knowledged to us with nurd] ingeiiuous fim- 

 plicity tluit lie l.:^cw noLhing of the matter 

 iiinsfclf; but i]\:v, at all c-.e-.ts, he could af- 

 iirrn, tii-it t'^ofc w!;o had r^d^hed him oi" his 

 tin-ec bundled and fil'r y rix -doiiai s were bir 

 more dangerou-^ lov-cicrs than he vas. 



The Du'.d\ Eall- India Company- lias fixed at 



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