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against my heroine is, that " Marcia, the lovely 

 Marcia," is always running away. In excuse for 

 her disappearance she alleged, that so far was her 

 husband from thinking that " she towered above 

 her sex," that he had called her " a very bad 

 woman," which had provoked her so much, that 

 she could not bear to stay with him ; and she 

 assured me, that he was himself " a very bad 

 man ; " which, if true, was certainly enough to 

 justify any lady, black or white, in making a little 

 incognito excursion for a week or so ; therefore, as 

 it appeared to be nothing more than a conjugal 

 quarrel, and as Marcia engaged never to run away 

 any more (at the same time allowing that she had 

 suffered her resentment to carry her too far, when 

 it had carried her all the way to the mountains), I 

 desired that an act of oblivion might be passed in 

 favour of Cato's daughter, and away she went, 

 quite happy, to pick hog's meat. 



The negro houses are composed of wattles on the 

 outside, with rafters of sweet- wood, and are well 

 plastered within and whitewashed ; they consist of 

 two chambers, one for cooking and the other for 

 sleeping, and are, in general, well furnished with 

 chairs, tables, &c, and I saw none without a four- 

 post bedstead and plenty of bed-clothes ; for, in spite 

 of the warmth of the climate, when the sun is not 

 above the horizon the negro always feels very chilly. 

 I am assured that many of my slaves are very rich 

 (and their property is inviolable), and that they are 



