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which was meant as a satire upon the Eboes. My 

 friend Strap being an Eboe, and one who had 

 hitherto generally taken a leading part in all the 

 discontents and squabbles of his countrymen, I 

 was not without apprehensions of his having been 

 concerned in the late complaint. I was, therefore, 

 much pleased to find that he had positively re- 

 fused to take any share in the business, and had 

 been to the full as violent as any of the Creoles 

 in reprobating the ingratitude of the Eboes. To- 

 day he came up to the house dressed in his best 

 clothes, to show me his seven children ; and he 

 marched at their head in all the dignity of pater- 

 nal pride. He begged me particularly to notice 

 two fine little girls, who were twins. I told him 

 that I had seen them already. " Iss! iss!" he said; 

 " massa see urn ; but massa no admire um enough 

 yet." Upon which I fell to admiring them, tooth 

 and nail, and the father went away quite proud 

 and satisfied. 



February 25. 



Yesterday it was observed at George's Plain, an 

 estate about four miles off, that the water-mill did 

 not work properly, and it was concluded that the 

 grating was clogged up with rubbish. To clear it 

 away, a negro immediately jumped down into the 

 trench upon a log of wood ; when he felt the log 

 move under him, and of course jumped out again 

 with all possible expedition. It was then dis- 



