EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. SB 



rifing fun, viz. about fix o'clock in the morning, when chap. 

 he makes his appearance under the piazza of his houfe ; 

 where his coffee is ready waiting for him, which he 

 generally takes with his pipe, inftead of toaft and but- 

 ter; and there he is attended by half a dozen of the 

 fineft young ilaves, both male and female, of the plan- 

 tation, to ferve him ; at this Jandlum-fanBoruin he is 

 next accofted by his overfeer, who regularly every 

 morning attends at his levee, and having made his 

 bows at feveral yards diftance, with the moft profound 

 refpe£l informs his Greatnefs what work was done the 

 day before ; what negroes deferted, died, fell fick, re- 

 covered, were bought or born ; and, above all things, 

 which of them negledted their work, affected ficknefs, 

 or had been drank or abfent, &c. ; the prifoners are 

 generally prefent, being fecured by the negro-drivers,, 

 and inftantly tied up to the beams of the piazza, or a 

 tree, without fo much as being heard in their own 

 defence ; when the flogging begins, with men, vv'omenj 

 or children, without exception. The inftruments of 

 torture on thefe occafions are long hempen whips, that 

 cut round at every lafli, and crack like piftol-fliot; 

 during which they alternately repeat, " Dankee^ majfera^'' 

 (Thank you, mafter). In the mean time he ftalks up 

 and down with his overfeer,- affedling not fo much as 

 to hear their cries, till they are fufficiently mangled, 

 when they are untied, and ordered to return to their 

 v/ork, without fo much as a dreffins;. 

 This ceremony being over, the drefly negro (a black 



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