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order of the home, no lefs than his perfonal 

 addrefs, indicated an improved and cultivated 

 mind. Our vifit at Arends was fhprter than 

 we could have wifhed. We took dinner with 

 M 8 Panels, and paffed a few hours fo pleafantly 

 as to regret that they could not be tenfold 

 multiplied. But, as we were anxious to reach 

 the utmoft extent of our journey, and as the 

 afternoon tide ferved for us to proceed, it was 

 deemed expedient not to delay ; and the more 

 fo, as quitting Arends would not deprive us 

 of the fociety of M. Pauels, that gentleman 

 and M. Fenner having promifed to accompany 

 us throughout the next fiage of our journey. 

 Accordingly in the evening, M. Paiiels, 

 with his own boat and flaves, undertook to 

 conduct the party to M. Heynemann's, the 

 re mote ft European fettlement of the colony. 

 "We embarked from Arends on a fmall river 

 or creek, — which, at a fhort diftancc from M. 

 Panels', falls into the great river Berbifche. On 

 the point of land, at the angle formed by the 

 two ftreams, is a fmall battery, and an old 

 eftablimed military poft, which is ftill kept up 

 by a Dutch guard, or at leaft the lemblance of 

 it, formed of a few antiquated invalids.-^ We 

 called to requeft of them to tell the negroes 



