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CHAP. XVII. 



New Injlances of unprecedented Barbarity -—Occurrences 

 on Mount Magdenberg — Frices of Vrovifions at Para^ 

 maribo — Defcription of a new Animal — Great Morta^ 

 lity amongft the Troops in Tempatse and Comewina 

 River, 



THE firft vifit I now made was to Mr. Kennedy, to chap. 

 bid him farewel ; I then paid five hundred florins _ xvil. 

 for the black boy, for which he gave me a receipt, and 

 Quaco was mine. About this time I fell ill with a fever, 

 which however lafted but a few days. Walking out on 

 the I ft of May, I obferved a croud of people along the 

 water-fide, before the houfe of Mr. S — Ik — r, where ap- 

 peared the dreadful fpedlacle of a beautiful young mu- 

 latto girl, floating on her back, with her hands tied be- 

 hind, her throat moft fliockingly cut, and ftabbed in the 

 bfeaft with a knife in more than eight or ten different 

 places. This was reported to have been the work of that 

 infernal fiend, Mrs. S — Ik— r, from a motive of jealoufy, 

 fufpedling that her hufband might fall in love with this 

 poor unfortunate female. This monfter of a woman 

 had before drowned a negro infant merely for crying, 

 as I have faid ; nay, flie was accufed of ftiil greater bar- 

 barity, were greater barbarity poffible. Arriving one 

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