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in the field with a woman belonging to a gang 

 hired to perform some particular work ; upon 

 which she flew upon him with the greatest fury, 

 grasped him by the throat, cried to her fellows 

 — " Come here ! come here ! Let us Dunbar him!" 

 and through her strength and the suddenness of 

 her attack had nearly accomplished her purpose, be- 

 fore his own slaves could come to his assistance. 

 This woman was also executed. 



This ^happened about five years ago, when the 

 mountains were in a very rebellious state. Every 

 thing there is at present quiet. But only last year a 

 book-keeper belonging to the next estate to me was 

 found with his skull fractured in one of my own 

 cane-pieces ; nor have any enquiries been able to 

 discover the murderer. 



February 22. 



During many years the Moravians have been 

 established upon the neighbouring estate of Meso- 

 potamia. As the ecclesiastical commissaries had 

 said so much to me respecting the great appetite 

 of the negroes for religious instruction, I was 

 desirous of learning what progress had been made 

 in this quarter, and this morning I went over to 

 see one of the teachers. He told me, that he 

 and his wife had jointly used their best efforts to 

 produce a sense of religion in the minds of the 

 slaves ; that they were all permitted to attend his 

 morning and evening lectures, if they chose it ; 



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