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flefs of the echo. But we quickly difcovered 

 that, however mufical and delighting in the 

 domeftic copfes of England, thefe were calls 

 of danger in the deep and wild woods of 

 Guiana ! Our friendly conductor, Mr. Fenner, 

 inftantly took alarm, and begging us to defift, 

 defired that we would trot on, and be ftiil, 

 left we fhould bring down the Buih-negroes 

 to our path ; who, if they fhould find them- 

 felves able to overpower us, would certainly 

 take off our fcalps, and perhaps not leave us 

 our heads I — Need I fay that we obeyed, and 

 rode on in filence ? 



The accommodations of this day's jour- 

 ney were quite Weft Indian, each had a Have 

 running at his horfe's fide, or holding at his 

 tail ; and each flave was loaded either with a 

 trunk of clothes upon his head, or a bottle of 

 Madeira wine, of rum, or of water in his 

 hand. Imagine to yourfelf the picture of a 

 party of Europeans riding through the wild 

 woods and favannas of South America , with a 

 body of African flaves running at their fides, 

 carrying bottles in their hands, and trunks on 

 their heads, and you will have a correct idea 

 of i our travelling group. The negroes kept 



