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therefore, proceed In my own way to tel} 

 you that, fince the date of my laft letter, I 

 have been witnefs to a gentleman calling up 

 one of his flaves, into the breakfaft room, and 

 giving him orders to go with three others into 

 the fields, the high-ways, or the woods, and 

 cut grafs, to fell in the town, charging him 

 to recoiled that it was at the pain of a " good 

 flogging" if they did not each bring him, 

 home four bits * at night, and adding, by 

 way of encouragement, that, if they could 

 gain more, they might keep the furplus for 

 themfelves. They went out, each taking a 

 long knife and a firing, and returned, punc- 

 tually, in the evening with the fixteen bits*. 



Unfortunately I am now enabled to 

 fpeak of the punifliment of a flave, which 

 was far more fevere than that mentioned in 

 my laft letter ; and, I am forry to add, attend- 

 ed with fimilar marks of infenfibility, and 

 want of feeling, on the part of a white female. 

 Happening to call one morningupon a lady at 

 Stabroek, in company with feveral Europeans 

 who had been my fellow-pafiengers hither s 



• About is. 8d. fterling 0 



