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mtWe liome, by the iron-hand of commerce, 

 to be tranfported to a home of flavery ; and 

 you will be pleafed to !earn that in this wifh, 

 I have had an early opportunity of being 

 gratified, A flave ftiip, belonging to North 

 America, and bound to Savanna in Georgia, 

 had arrived from the coafl: of Guinea juft be- | 

 fore we came into harbour, and was lying 

 very near to us, with a cargo of negroes on 

 board. Fearing fhe might fail for America, ^ 

 and being unwilling to lofe the firft occafion 

 that offered^ of adminiftering to a curiofity 

 which beat ftrong in our breafts, Mafter, Cleg- 

 horn, and myfelf took off a boat, the morning 1 

 after we came to anchor, and went to vifit ' 

 the Guinea-man. We confidered ourfelves . 

 fortunate in finding both the mafter and mate 

 of the flitp difpofed to fhew us every civility, 

 and to indulge us in ready reply to the 

 queflions which our curiofity fuggefted. 



A little before they made Carllfle bay 

 they had been taken out of their fliip, and 

 detained a whole night, on board an Englifli 

 frigate, while their papers were examined, 

 nndex the fdpicion that the veffel and cargo 



