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Inclination ftrongly impels me to avail 

 myfelf of fopleafant a method of feeing, and 

 acquiring a knowledge of the colony ; but, at 

 prefent, the calls of duty are too urgent to al- 

 low the ab fence of a lingle day ; and as it is 

 intended that I fhall return with the General, 

 to head quarters, in order to proceed to St, 

 Domingo, I (hall probably have to lament the 

 impoffibility of embracing the occafion offered 

 to me of better knowing Demarara, and its hof- 

 pitable inhabitants. 



I fhould tell you that the poor unhappy 

 flave, who came to me to entreat, that I would 

 purchafe her ; , was a very decent young wo- 

 man, here termed a " houfe-wench %" The 

 hardfhips and ill treatment fhe had fuffered, 

 had created, fhe faid, fuch an entire diflike to 

 her prefent home, that if fhe could find no 

 " good Majfa" who would buy her, fhe had re- 

 folved to try and efcape from her mifery by 

 running away. The poor creature fhuddered 

 as fhe mentioned this expedient, fenfible that 

 if fhe fhould be retaken, her fufferings, great 

 as they were, would be fadly multiplied. Still 

 fhe declared fhe w T as firmly refolved to hazard 



* A domeftic flave — not fent to work in the fields. 



