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take their captain's charger. At this moment 

 a rapid thought winged its way to England, 

 and I wifhed I could have placed a pi&ure be- 

 fore you, reprefenting your friend occupied, 

 amidft a group of horfe and foot, planters, of- 

 ficers, and flaves — Englijh, Africans , andDutcbj 

 fcampering over a wild favanna, enclofed by 

 the deep forefts of Guiana, in purfuit of a 

 South American mule. We fortunately fur- 

 rounded the animal before (he had made her 

 way into the woods, and, after a wide gallop 

 about the plain, fhe was brought back into the? 

 ranks. 



It now became a queftion, who fhould 

 mount the mule ; for Mynheer Fenner, though 

 not hurt, had grown pallid and nervous, and was 

 in truth, fo bad a horfeman, that there was 

 not the leaft probability of his remaining many 

 minutes upon her back, if he fhould again at- 

 tempt to ride her : and to leave our captain, 

 our guide, and our hoft behind us, to walk to 

 Johanna, could not be endured. In this dU 

 lemma it fell to my lot to undertake the ma- 

 nagement of the frifky mule, throughout the 

 remainder of the journey ; — and, whether 

 her capering fit was fubdued by the chafe 



