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as the cruellest proprietor that ever disgraced 

 Jamaica. It was his constant practice, whenever 

 a sick negro was pronounced incurable, to order 

 the poor wretch to be carried to a solitary vale 

 upon his estate, called the Gulley, where he was 

 thrown down, and abandoned to his fate ; which 

 fate was generally to be half devoured by the 

 john-crows, before death had put an end to his 

 sufferings. By this proceeding the avaricious 

 owner avoided the expence of maintaining the 

 slave during his last illness ; and in order that he 

 might be as little a loser as possible, he always 

 enjoined the negro bearers of the dying man to 

 strip him naked before leaving the Gulley, and not 

 to forget to bring back his frock and the board on 

 which he had been carried down. One poor 

 creature, while in the act of being removed, 

 screamed out most piteously " that he was not dead 

 yet ; " and implored not to be left to perish in the 

 Gulley in a manner so horrible. His cries had no 

 effect upon his master, but operated so forcibly on 

 the less marble hearts of his fellow-slaves, that in 

 the night some of them removed him back to the 

 negro village privately, and nursed him there with 

 so much care, that he recovered, and left the estate 

 unquestioned and undiscovered. Unluckily, one 

 day the master was passing through Kingston, 

 when, on turning the corner of a street suddenly, 

 he found himself face to face with the negro, whom 

 he had supposed long ago to have been picked to 



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