LETTER XX. 



A Dutch « vendue" of Jlaves, Attended by the cohnlfls 

 like a public fair. Hjhiite a holy day or gala-meeting. Man- 

 ner of expofmg the Jlaves by autlion. Method of examining 

 them* Their average value* Conducl of a negro who 

 ivas put up to the hammer without his wife. Author con- 

 duels his friend from African Jlaves to free Indians, Joins 

 a party of Indians near the river Kannye, Indifference of 

 thefe people concerning the whites. Another party pack up 

 their furniture and utenjils 9 and return into the woods, 

 The women bear the burden, Indians engage to cut woody 

 but cannot be relied on. They have no indujlry — nor any 

 deftre to emulate the colonijls, A party from the woods 

 come down the river in a canoe to Fort St, Andrew. 



Berbifche, June, 



SittCE writing to you laft I have been prefent 

 at the fale of a Dutch cargo of flaves, at the 

 new town of Arnfterdam. Many of the of- 

 ficers went from the fort to witnefs this de- 

 grading fpedacle, and although my feelings 

 had fuffered from a fimilar fcene at Demarara, 

 I could not refift the novelty of obferving the 

 Dutch mode of proceeding in this fad traffic 

 pf human cattle. 



