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c H A P. the reader may depend on having them painted in their 

 , true original colours, however ftrong the fhades. 



Governor Nepfeu was faid to be rather a man of fenfe 

 than of learning, and was wholly indebted to his art and 

 addrefs, for having rifen to his prefent dignity from 

 fweeping the hall of the court-houfe. By the fame 

 means he was enabled, from nothing, to accumulate a 

 fortune, by fome computed at no lefs than eight thoufand 

 pounds fterling annually, and to command refpedt from 

 all ranks of people, no perfon ever daring to attack him 

 but at a diftance. His deportment was affable, but iron- 

 ical, without ever lofing the command of his temper, 

 which gave him the appearance of a man of falhion, 

 and rendered his influence almoft unbounded. He was 

 generally known by the appellation of Reynard, and 

 was mofl: certainly a fox of too much artifice tol^e run 

 down by all the hounds in the colony. 



Colonel Fourgeoud was almoft exa6lly the reverfe of 

 this portrait. He was impetuous, paflionate, felf-fuffi- 

 cient, and revengeful : he was not cruel to individuals, 

 but was a tyrant to the generality, and caufed the death 

 of hundreds by his fordid avarice and oppreffion. With 

 all this he was partial, ungrateful, and confufed j but 

 a moft indefatigable man in bearing hardlhips and in 

 braving dangers, not exceeded by Columbus himfelf, 

 which, like a true buccaneer, he fuftained with the moft 

 heroic courage, patience, and perfeverance. Though iin-^ 

 I conquerably 



