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from their coming in fo good a caufe, not one intended, CHAP, 

 or even dared to hurt them. . ^^]' . 



When the above-mentioned Captain Bofton, however, 

 perceived that they had brought a parcel of trinkets, fuch 

 as knives, fciffai's, combs, and fmall looking-glaffesj and 

 forgotten the principal articles in qneftion, viz. gun- 

 powder, fire-arms, and ammunition, he refolutely ap- 

 proached the commiffioners, and demanded, in a thun- 

 dering voice, whether the Europeans imagined that the 

 negroes could live on combs and looking-glafTes ; adding, 

 that one of each was quite fufficient to let them all fee their 

 faces, while a fingle gallon of manfancy^ viz. gunpowder, 

 would have been accepted as a proof of their confidence ; 

 but fince that had been omitted, he fliould never confent 

 to their return to their countrymen, till every article oi 

 the lift fliould be difpatched to them, and confequently 

 the treaty fulfilled. 



This expoftulation occafioned the interference of a 

 negro captain, called Quaco^j), who declared that thefe 

 gentlemen were only the mefTengers of their governor 

 and court ; and as they could not be anfwerable for their 

 mafler's proceedings, they fhould certainly return to 

 the fettlement without injury or infult, and no per- 

 fon, not even he, Captain Boil:on, fliould dare to oppofe 



The chief of the rebels then ordered lilence, and de- 

 fired Mr. Abercrombie to make up a lift himfelf, of fuch 

 articles as he, Araby, fhould "fpecify; which that gentle- 



them. 



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