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foofpital, or place of accommodation for ourfick. 

 This would have led to a new journey, b)r 

 way of the wet and flippery road, to the 

 fort ; but, among the happy events of the day, 

 fortune threw me in the path of another gen- 

 tleman refiding in the town, who, upon ob- 

 ferving me fcrambling through the mud and 

 clay, infifted upon my taking his boat and 

 flaves to convey me to the fort, by way of 

 the river, affuring me that to walk it might 

 be a dangerous excefs of fatigue ; and, fur- 

 ther, directing his negroes to wait, and bring 

 me back, to his houfe, to dinner. Perhaps 

 I was little inclined to refufe, but it had 

 been difficult to refill: the preffing civility 

 with which the accommodation was of- 

 fered, accordingly I accepted the boat, and, 

 afterwards, returned and ate of boiled fowl, 

 and a roafted kid. During dinner the friendly 

 invitation was extended to a requeft, aim oil 

 amounting to a demand, from both the gen- 

 tleman and lady of the table, that I would 

 make that houfe my home fo long as the fer- 

 vice fliould require my continuance at Sta- 

 broek. Thus has fortune, at once, eftabliihed 

 me in good quarters in the enemy's country, 



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