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curls in large ringlets. Thefe flaves, both male and fe- 

 male, are generally handfome, and chiefly employed as 

 menial fervants in the planters' houfes. 



At my return to the Hope, I was accofted by Mr. 

 Ebber, the overfeer of that eftate, who with a woeful 

 countenance informed me he had juft been fined in the 

 fum of twelve hundred florins, about one hundred 

 guineas, for having exercifed the like cruelty on a male 

 flave ; with this difference, that the victim had died dur* 

 ing the execution. In anfwer to his complaint, fo far 

 from giving him confolation, I told him his diftrefs gave 

 me inexpreflible fatisfa6tion. 



The particulars of this murder were as follow : during 

 the time that Captain Tulling commanded here, which 

 was a little time before I came to the Hope, it happened 

 that a fugitive negro belonging to this eflate had been 

 taken upon an adjoining plantation, and fent home, guard- 

 ed by two armed flaves, to Mr. Ebber ; which fugitive, 

 during the time Ebber w^as reading the letter that accom- 

 panied him, found means to fpring afide, and again 

 efcaped into the foreft. This incenfed the overfeer fo 

 much, that he inftantiy took revenge upon the two poor 

 flaves that had brought him, tying them up in the car- 

 penter's lodge. He continued flogging them fo unmer- 

 cifully, that Captain Tulling thought proper to interfere, 

 and beg for mercy ; but, as in my cafe, bis interference 

 produced the oppofite effect : the clang of the whip, 

 mixed with their difmal cries, were heard to continue 



