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gratification. You will believe that the foll- 

 loquy I had fallen into was quickly at an end. 

 Senfible of the peril of my fituation, I took 

 up a rough ftaff for proteftion, and turning 

 from the dark foreft, and its favage inhabit- 

 ants, haftily trod back my path into cultivated 

 fields, and civilized fociety. 



As I am to note to you all occurrences, 

 and particularly fuch as are in any degree 

 novel or interefting, I muft not omit the fol- 

 lowing,— although it may feern to border 

 upon the incredible. It is, neverthelefs, a 

 fa£t that a few days ago I was applied to by 

 the wife of a colonift to requeft that I would 

 make fame complaint againft the flaves of the 

 houfe, to her hulband, very humanely urging 

 as a reafon for impofing upon me fo grateful 

 a tafk, that fhe wifhed " to get them a good 

 flogging /" I truft that neither you, nor any 

 of our fair friends, on the temperate fide of 

 the Atlantic, will condemn my want of gal- 

 lantry in refilling the felicitation. Perhaps, 

 in the brighteft days of chivalry, the molt 

 adulatory knight had not been obfequious 

 enough to have devoted to gallantry, at fuch 

 an expence of humanity. It was not even con* 



