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where we might conveniently take up our 

 quarters for the night. We were received 

 with great hofpitality by M. Deen, the mana- 

 ger, who infifted upon oqr taking dinner be- 

 fore we proceeded further. At table we met 

 a, Dutch gentleman, named Abbenfets, who, 

 on learning the nature of our expedition, very 

 cordially invited us to accompany him to the 

 plantation " Eflendam," where he was pleafed 

 to fay he mould be happy to accommodate us 

 not only for the night, but for the morrow, 

 and as long as we could make it convenient to 

 give him our company. We hailed this as a 

 fortunate rencontre, not merely on account of 

 being provided with a home for the firft night, 

 but as it augured favorably refpecting the 

 hofpitality we might require at the various 

 plantations in the courfe of our journey,— We 

 partook of a very good dinner at Het Pley- 

 tanker, and, foon afterwards, availing ourfelves 

 of the tide, accompanied M. Abbenfets to Ef- 

 fendam, which we found to be one of the 

 richeft coffee plantations of the colony. The 

 \ houfe befpeaks the value of the eftate, being a 

 fpacious building, and fuperior to any we had 

 feen in Berbifche, except the governor's man- 

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