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came fo painfully annoying to us that we loft 

 all fenfe of comfort and enjoyment : Dr* 

 Cleghorn and myfelf, therefore, flopped to 

 defire that they would get up, alternately, 

 and ride behind our chaife. Two of them, 

 only, accepted the ofler~~all the others con- 

 tinued to walk or run throughout the journey. 



Upon our mentioning to the gentlemen 

 of the ifland our uneafy feelings refpeding 

 thefe fable attendants, they fmiled at our 

 European tendernefs, and alTured us that fo 

 far from it being a fatigue or hardfhip to 

 them, they always hailed fuch an excurfion 

 as a holiday, and preferred it to remaining 

 quietly at home. We could not, for an in- 

 ftant, difpute the information ; but from 

 knowing that fuch violent exercife, under 

 fuch exceffive heat, muft have been fatal to 

 ourfelves, and not being enough Weft In- 

 dians to know how very differently it af- 

 fedled the negroes, we could not regard them 

 without fuffering ftrong feelings of niaUaife, 



At one fpot, in the courfe of our ride, 

 we had our attention arretted by obferving 



