EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



" about the African Haves, or you would teftify both lefs 

 " feeling and furprize. Not long ago, (continued he) I 

 " faw a black man fufpended alive from a gallows, by 

 the ribs, between which, with a knife, was firft made 

 " an incifion, and then clinched an iron hook with 

 " a chain ; in this manner he kept alive three days, 

 " hanging with his head and feet downwards, and catch- 

 ing with his tongue the drops of water (it being in 

 the rainy feafon) that were flowing down his bloated 

 " breaft. Notwithftanding all this he never complained, 

 " and even upbraided a negro for crying while he was 

 " flogged below the gallows, by calling out to him— You 

 man ? — Da cay fafyf Are you a man ? you behave like 

 " a boy. Shortly after which he was knocked on the 

 " head by the commiferating fentry, who flood over him, 

 with the butt end of his mufket." — " Another negro, 

 " (faid he) I have feen quartered alive ; who, after four 

 " ftrong horfes were faftened to his legs and arms, and 

 " after having had iron fprigs driven home underneath 

 every one of his nails on hands and feet, without a mo- 

 " tion, he firft afked a dram, and then bid them pull away, 

 " without a groan; but what afforded us the greatefl en- 

 " tertainment, (continued he) were the fellow's jokes, 

 by defiring the executioner to drink before him, in cafe 

 there fliould chance to be poifon in the glafs, and bid- 

 ding him take care of his horfes, left any of them 

 fhould happen to ftrike backwards. As for old men 

 " being broken upon the rack, and young women roafted 



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