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been cut in the elbow : fome obje&ions were <* 

 offered on the ground of difturbing the dref- 

 fings, unfewing the bandages and the like : 

 but as Mr. Blackader promifed to replace all 

 thefe in fit order, we perfifted in the requeft ; 

 and the Dutchman finding that we were ur- 

 gent, and rather inclined to be peremptory, at 

 length fubmitted : but the coat was faid to fit 

 inconveniently tight ; the fhirt fleeve to be 

 tied in a haftl knot, and other little difficulties 

 and delays were thrown in the way. Still 

 we determined to fubduc them all ; and when, 

 at laft, we fucceeded, lo ! inftead of the many 

 bandages, and complex dreffings we had been 

 taught to expe£t, we could neither find a. 

 plafter, nor the wound. Inftead of a deep cut 

 from a chiffel, a flight bruife only appeared 

 upon the elbow, the fkin being neither cut, nor 

 broken. This feemed to ftrengthen our fafpi- 

 cions that the poor flave had been unfairly 

 treated ; and by profecuting the inquiry we 

 learned the following hiftory. 



The Dutchman had gone to the carpen- 

 ter's ihop in the evening in fearch of a car- 

 penter to do fome work at a houfe in the town ; 

 and finding this negro fleeping in the room 



