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cattle. My tables, ftools, and benches, being all compofed CHAP, 



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of manicole boards, the doors and windows were guarded . - - ' _f 

 with ingenious wooden locks and keys, that were pre- 

 fented me by a negro, and were the work of his own 

 hands. My houfe being thus far finiflied and furnifli- 

 ed, my next care was to lay in a flock of provilions from 

 Paramaribo, v/z. a barrel of flour, another of falted 

 mackarel, which in this country are delicious, they are 

 imported from North America ; hams, pickled faufages, 

 Bofton bifcuit; alfo wine, Jamaica rum, tea, fugar, a box 

 of fpermaceti candles ; alfo two charming foreign flieep 

 and a hog, fent me by Mr. Kennedy from his eftate Vrie- 

 dyk, beddes two dozen of fine fowls and ducks prefented 

 me by Lucretia, my Joanna's aunt; while fruit, vegeta- 

 bles, fidi, and venifon, flowed upon me from every quar- 

 ter as ufual. 



On the ifl of April 1774, Joanna came down the river 

 in the Fauconberg tent-boat, rowed by eight negroes, 

 and arrived at the Hope : I communicated to her imme- 

 diately the contents of my letter to Holland, which flie 

 received with that gratitude and modefty in her looks 

 which fpoke more forcibly than any reply. I introduced 

 her to her new habitation, where the plantation flaves, in 

 token of refpe6l, immediately brought herprefents of ca- 

 fada, yams, bananas, and plantains, and never two people 

 were more completely happy. Free like the roes in the 

 foreft, and difencumbered of every care and ceremony, 

 we breathed the purefl ether In our walks, and refrefhed 



our 



