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€ H A P. " From the fame urn they drink the mingled wine^. 



III. And add libations to the pow'rs divine. 



— ^ " While thus their pray'rs united mount the fky, 



" Hear, mighty Jove! and hear, ye gods on high ! 

 " And may their blood, who firft the league confound, 

 " Shed like this wine, diftain the thirfty ground I" 



Homer's Iliad^ 



The folemnity being ended, the chief Araby and^ 

 each of his captains (to be diftinguifhed from the in^ 

 ferior negroes, as the Seramican chief Adoe had beea, 

 before in 1749) was prefented with a fine large cane and 

 iilver pummel, on which was alfo engraven the arms of 

 the colony. 



The above-mentioned negroes are called Oucas, after 

 the name of the plantation where the peace articles 

 were ligned ; and by that name they are iince diftin— 

 guiflied from thofe of Seramica, whom I have already 

 defcribed. 



At this time the charter was renewed to the Weft 

 India Company by their High Mightineffes, for the term 

 of thirty years longer (as it had been before in 1670, 

 J 700, and 1730) in conlideration of a loan of about five 

 million fterling, at the rate of fix per cent. 



This fame year peace was alfo a fecond time con- 

 cluded with the Seramica rebels, who were at that time 

 commanded by a negro called Wille^ inftead of their 

 former chief Adoe, who was dead. But this fecond 

 peace was unfortunately broken by a rebel captain, called 

 Muzinga, who had received none of the prefents, which 

 ^ had 



