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by means of what the negroes either grow, 

 or fleal. 



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Being anxious to provide for the fidk, 

 in the beft way our fupply would admit, I 

 became, on Sunday Iaft, quite a foreftaller of 

 the market. Taking with me a party of 

 flaves, and of orderlies from the hofpital, we 

 went, at an early hour, to the fpot where the 

 negroes ufually aflemble with their loads ; and 

 finding that very few had arrived, we walked 

 out to the different roads, leading to the town, 

 and, there, made our purchafes in the grofs, 

 as we chanced to meet the fupplies on their 

 way to the market. 



I know not whether you will hold this 

 foreftalling and monopoly to be juftifiable ; 

 but I felt it confiftent with my duty to the 

 fick ; and if any of thofe who were well ex- 

 perienced a difappointment at the market, in 

 confequence of it, my confolation was, that 

 they would be much better able to fupply 

 themfelves, by other means, than the poor 

 fufFering obje&s for whom I had to pro- 

 vide. , 



