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with me, and bringing out a glass of some green liquid, 

 he made me take a good gulp of it : its excessive bitter- 

 ness seemed to cut me in two, and I asked with horror 

 what was the stuff he had given me. He laughed at 

 the face I made, and told me it was something quite 

 new and his own invention : it was bear's gall and 

 whiskey, and he was not a little proud of his medicine. 

 I slept well during the night, and returned to S.'s next 

 day. I was very sorry not to have been in better con- 

 dition on the evening that I passed at Dunn's, for he 

 was a good old fellow, and very amusing with his dry 

 stories. 



On the evening of the 18th October, S. came back 

 from Strong's, where he had bought a couple of negro 

 children, and brought them home on a led horse. One 

 was a boy about fifteen years old, as black as pitch, and 

 with a regular Ethiopian cast of countenance ; as lie 

 crossed the threshold, he examined every one present, 

 with a rapid glance of his large dark eyes, and then 

 looked unconcernedly at all the furniture, &c., as if all 

 that was of no consequence to him. The other was a 

 little girl of about eleven, who seemed already to have 

 gone through some hard work. When she saw so 

 many strange faces, a tear glittered in her eyes : she 

 had been sold away from her parents, whom she would 

 probably never more behold, and stood an image of 

 suppressed grief. The boy Avas from Maryland, had 

 been taken by sea to New Orleans, and from thence 

 brought here. He had been told that he had fallen to 

 a kind master, and his countenance seemed to say that 

 was enough, happen what might. 



On the following Sunday, I had another attack of 



