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Oa the evening of the 21ft, I availed myfelf once more 

 of being commandant, by fending two barges for provi- 

 iions> the one to La Rochelle and the other to Devil's 

 Harwar, which laft brought back a box with Bofton .bif~ 

 cuit, fent me from Paramaribo. , - 



On this day two flaves were put in confinement, accufed 

 of having taken pork from the magazine ; and I was ad- 

 drefled by the troops to inflidl an exemplary punifliment, 

 the common foldiers defpifing the negro flaves, as in their 

 imagination greatly below themfelves, and ftupidly con- 

 lidering them as the caufes of their diftrefs. Havingfound 

 a large piece of pork in their cuftody, yet having na 

 proof that was fufficient to eftablifli the theft, I found 

 myfelf greatly at a lofs to diftribute juftice with fatis- 

 fadtion to both parties ; the Europeans unmercifully ac- 

 cu.{ing, and the /poor flaves vindicating their ilarved 

 companions in fuch a clamorous ftyle, that the whole 

 camp was in an uproar. The firft perfifted that the 

 latter had ftolen it, and the others that they had faved it 

 from their allowance,, to take to their families. Affect- 

 ing, therefore, the ftile of a defpotic prince, I ordered 

 firft a ring to be formed of the plaintiffs, and next the 

 prifoners to be let within it. I then, with a ftern and loud 

 voice, commanded a block and a hatchet to be brought. 

 It was with heart-felt fatisfadtion that I found this folemn 

 apparatus, and the apprehenfion that v/e might commit 

 a rafli and criminal adtion,, foon difpelled every feeling of 



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