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mt whether we fhall ever be able to &at it 

 again. 



Beef, veal, ancl mutton are luxuries be- 

 yond our reach. This colony does not Supply 

 them in fufficient quantity for its ordinary 

 confumption : we do not therefore expecl: 

 them, except by way of an occafional feafh 

 The great additional demand for frefli pro- 

 vifions, fince our arrival, has likewife taken 

 off all the furplus of fmaller ftock, and left 

 fcarcely a fpare duck or a chicken in the colony* 



In one of our pro vlfion-hun ting excur- 

 fions to the Weftern coaft, we had the good 

 fortune to fall in with Captain Dougan, whom 

 we found refiding there, in command of the 

 remnant of the black corps, which Was raifed 

 laft year for the expedition againft the Bufli 

 negroes. From this gentleman we experi- 

 enced every mark of polite and hofpitable 

 attention. In our converfation we difcovered 

 that he was the fon of the gentleman I had 

 feen at " Profit y and, on his learning that 

 1 had vifited his father, we were at once old 

 acquaintances. But this was not required 

 to Call, forth the captain's hofpitality, for he 



