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CHAP, difplaying two rows of very beautiful teeth ;, and at the 

 ^' fame time, laying hold of the breaft-buttons of my coat*, 

 fhe made me a fignal to follow her. I was much at a. 

 lofs how to a(5t, but went in, and was ufhered by the. 

 girl into a very neat apartment, whither flie brought 

 fome excellent fruit, and a bottle of Madeira wine, which 

 {[le placed upon the table. She then, in the beft manneir 

 fhe was able, informed me that her ma/era, with the: 

 reft of his family, was gone to fpend a few days at his; 

 plantation, and that (he was left behind to receive art 

 Englilh Captain, whom flie fuppofed to^ be me. I figni- 

 fied that I was, and filled her out a tumbler of wine,.. 

 which I had the utmoft difficulty to perfuade her to ac- 

 cept ; for fuch is the degrading light in which thefe un- 

 happy beings are confidered, that it is aeco^lnted a. high 

 degree of prefumption in them to eat or drink in the: 

 prefence of an European. I contrived for fome time ta; 

 carry on fomething like a converfation with this woman,, 

 but was foon glad to put an end to it by recurring to my 

 bottle. 



/ Tired with the employments of the day, I longed for 

 fome reft, an,d made a fignal to my attendant that I 

 wanted to fleep : but my motion was ftrangely mifconr 

 ftrued; for Ihe immediately feized me by the neck,, 

 and imprinted on my lips a moft ardent kifs. Heartily 

 provoked a^ this unexpecSled, and (from one of her co- 

 lour) unwelcome falutation,! difentangled myfelf from her 

 embraces, and angrily flung into the apartment allotted 



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