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estate produces. We ascended a wooden stair- 

 case, erected on the outside of the building, 

 entered a small antichamber, and were received 

 by our host and one of his sons, who conducted 

 us into a spacious apartment beyond. A long 

 table, and one of rather less dimensions, a 

 couple of benches, and a few broken and un- 

 painted chairs formed the whole furniture Of 

 these rooms. Four or five black boys, who 

 were of a size too far advanced to wear the 

 bow and arrow, but who were quite as little en- 

 cumbered with dress as if they still might wield 

 these dangerous w T eapons in the character of 

 cupids, stood all astonishment to view the 

 strange beings that had just arrived ; and at 

 all the doors were women's heads peeping to 

 see whom we might be. The supper consisted 

 as is usual of great quantities of meat, placed 

 upon the table without arrangement. 



At five o'clock in the morning, the Capitam- 

 mor, my friend, myself, and three servants 

 proceeded to the distance of three leagues with- 

 out any addition to our party ; but we were 

 soon joined by the adjutant of the district and 

 several other officers, in uniforms of dark blue 

 with yellow facings most monstrously broad — 

 the gay cuffs reaching half way up to the el- 

 bows ; they wore round hats with short feathers, 

 straight swords of mostprodigious length, and very 

 loose nankeen pantaloons and boots; the former 



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