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plied refused positively ; the second he treated 

 with liquor, and when she had drunk, he gave her 

 the poison, with instructions how to use it. Being 

 a timid creature, she did not dare to object, so 

 threw away the powder privately, and pretended 

 that it had been administered; but rinding no 

 effect produced by it, Adam gave her a second 

 powder, at the same time bidding her remember 

 the liquor which she had swallowed, and which 

 he assured her would effect her own destruction 

 through the force of Obeah, unless she prevented 

 it by sacrificing his enemy in her stead. The 

 poor creature still threw away the powder, but the 

 strength of imagination brought upon her a se- 

 rious malady, and it was not till after several 

 weeks that she recovered from the effects of her 

 fears. The terror thus produced was universal 

 throughout the estate, and Sully and several other 

 principal negroes requested me to remove them to 

 my property in St. Thomas's, as their lives were 

 not safe while breathing the same air with Adam. 

 However, it appeared a more salutary measure to 

 remove Adam himself ; but all the poisoning 

 charges either went no further than strong sus- 

 picion, or (any more than the assaults) were not 

 liable by the laws of Jamaica to be punished, 

 except by flogging or temporary imprisonment, 

 which would only have returned him to the estate 

 with increased resentment against those to whom 

 he should ascribe his sufferings, however deserved. 



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