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CHAP. « alive chained to ftakes, there can nothing be more 

 " common in this colony." — I was petrified at the in- 

 human detail; and breaking away with execrations from 

 this diabolical fcene of laceration, made the beft of my 

 %vay home to my own lodgings. 



On the 24th, having received a fnpply of provifions 

 from Holland, and abfolutely doing no fervice in the 

 colony, it was univerfally refolved that we fliould pro- 

 ceed home; our regiment, notwithftanding its being 

 partly paid by the United Provinces, ftill being exceed- 

 ingly chargeable to the fociety and the inhabitants, who, 

 in conjundion, paid all other expences ; thus, in the 

 hopes of failing in the middle of June, the tranfports 

 were ordered a fecond time to wood, water, and make 

 all other neceflary preparations. 



i muft fay nothing of what I felt on this occalion ; I 

 continued, however, not long in this ftate of fufpenfe ; 

 for the following day intelligence being brought that a 

 plantation was demolifhed, and the overfeers murdered 

 hj the rebels, our flay was prolonged a fecond time, at 

 the requeil of the governor himfelf and inhabitants ; and, 

 in confequence, the three tranfports, which had finc^ 

 February the 9th been kept waiting at a great expence, 

 were finally put out of commiffion, and the provifions 

 flowed at the head-quarters in a temporary ftore-houfe 

 erected for that purpofe. 



The minds of the people began now to be quieted, 

 finding at laft that the troops were in earneft preparirig 



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