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general hubbub. It proved to be occasioned by 

 Neptune's arrival (if Thames or Achelous had been 

 despatched on this errand, it would have been more 

 appropriate) with the alligator on his head. In a 

 few minutes every thing on the estate that was 

 alive, without feathers, and with only two legs, 

 flocked into the room, and requested to take a 

 bird's-eye view of the monster ; for as to coming 

 near her, that they were much too cowardly to 

 venture. It was in vain that I represented to them, 

 that being dead it was utterly impossible that the 

 animal could hurt them : they allowed the impos- 

 sibility, but still kept at a respectful distance ; and 

 when at length I succeeded in persuading them to 

 approach it, upon some one accidentally moving 

 the alligator's tail, they all, with one accord, set 

 up a loud scream, and men, women, and children 

 tumbled out of the room over one another, to 

 the irreparable ruin of some of my glasses and 

 decanters, and the extreme trepidation of the 

 whole side-board. 



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The negro-husband, who stabbed his rival in a 

 fit of jealousy, has been tried at Montego Bay, and 

 acquitted. On the other hand, the King of the 

 Eboes has been hung at Black River, and died, 

 declaring that he left enough of his countrymen to 

 prosecute the design in hand, and revenge his 

 death upon the whites. Such threats of a rescue 



