26 NARRATIVE OF AN 



CHAP, day at her eftate to view fome negroes newly purchafed- 

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her eye chanced to fall on a fine negro girl about fifteen 

 years of age, who could not even fpeak the language of 

 the country. Obferving her to be a remarkably fine 

 figurej with a fweet engaging countenance, her diabo- 

 lical jealoufy inftantly prompted her to burn the girl's 

 cheeks, mouth, and forehead with a red-hot iron ; Ihe 

 alfo cut the tendon Achilles of one of her legs, thus ren- 

 dering her a monfter of deformity, and a miferable ob- 

 jedl as long as file lived : the poor victim not knowing 

 what file had done to deferve fo fevere a punifiiment. 



Some of the negroes now reprefenting to this lady 

 the many cruelties flie daily infli(5led, and fupplicating 

 her to be of a milder difpofition ; it was reported that 

 fhe infi:antly knocked out the brains of a Quaderooii 

 child, and caufed the heads of two young negroes, its re- 

 lations, to be chopped off, for having endeavoured to 

 prevent her; thefe heads, when fhe had left the efiate, 

 were tied in filk handkerchiefs, and carried by the fur- 

 viving relations to Paramaribo, where they were laid at 

 the feet of the governor, with the following fpeech : 



77?ISf your Excellency, is the head of my fon, and 

 fMs is the head of my brother, firuck off by our mif- 

 trefs's command, for endeavouring to prevent her mur- 

 " ders. We know our evidence is nothing in a ftate of 

 " flavery ; but, if thefe bloody heads be a fufficient 

 " proof of what we fay, we only beg that fuch perni- 

 " clous a6ts may be prevented in time to come ; in ac- 



" knowledgment 



