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find as much amusement in having their throats cut, 

 as the blacks would find in cutting them. I remem- 

 ber hearing a sportsman, who was defending the 

 humanity of hunting, maintain, that it being as 

 much the nature of a hare to run away as of a dog 

 to run after her, consequently the hare must receive 

 as much pleasure from being coursed, as the dog 

 from coursing. 



March 23. 



Two negroes upon Amity estate quarrelled the 

 other day about some trifle, when the one bit the 

 other's nose off completely. Soon after his ac- 

 cident, the overseer meeting the sufferer — "Why, 

 Sambo," he exclaimed, " where 's your nose?" 

 " I can 't tell, rnassa," answered Sambo ; " I looked 

 every where about, but I could not find it." 



March 24. (Sunday.) 



Every Sunday since my return from Kingston I 

 have read prayers to such of the negroes as chose 

 to attend, preparatory to the intended visitations of 

 the minister, Dr. Pope. About twenty or thirty of 

 the most respectable among them generally at- 

 tended, and behaved with great attention and pro- 

 priety. I read the Litany, and made them repeat 

 the responses. I explained the Commandments and 

 the Lord's Prayer to them, teaching them to say 

 each sentence of the latter after me, as I read it 

 slowly, in hopes of impressing it upon their me- 

 mory. Then came " the good Samaritan," or some 



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