EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



as we mark furniture or any thing elfe to authenticate 

 them properly. Thefe hot letters, which are about the 

 iize of a fix-pence, occafion not that pain which may be 

 imagined, and the blifters being rubbed dire(Stly with a 

 little frefli butter, are perfecflly well in the fpace of two 

 or three days. No fooner is this ceremony over, and a 

 new name given to the newly-bought Have, than he or 

 fhe is delivered to an old one of the fame fex, and fent to 

 the eftate, where each is properly kept clean by his guar- 

 dian, inftruded and well fed, without working, for the 

 fpace of lix weeks ; during which period, from living 

 fkeletons, they become plump and fat, with a beautiful 

 clean Ikin, till it is disfigured by the inhuman flogging 

 of fomic rafcally proprietor, or rather his overfeer. 



Here I muft leave them for fome time, and continue 

 my narrative, after obferving that the negroes are *com- 

 pofed of different nations or cafts^ fuch as the 



Abo, - Congo, 



Conia, Gango, 



Blitay, Konare, 



Coromantin, Riemba, 



With moH: of which I have found means to^get acquaint- 

 ed, and of which I fliall fpeak more amply in another 

 place of this narrative. 



On the loth, the furceon havin^- lanced my thioh, I 

 fcrambled out once more, to vv'itnefs the felling of flaves 



Vol. L D d. 4 to 



Loango, Pombo, 



N. Zoko, Wanway, 

 Nago, &c. Sic. 



Papa, 



