S8 NARRATIVE OF AN 



CHAP, fro, like a performer on the flack-rope, till he falls afleep. 

 - - without either bed or covering; and during which time 

 he is fanned by a couple of his black attendants, to keep 

 him cool, &c. 



About three o'clock he awakes by natural inftindV, 

 when having wafhed and perfunied himfelf, he fits 

 down to dinner, attended as at breakfaft by his deputy 

 governor and fable pages, where nothing is wanting 

 that the world can afford in a weftern climate, of meat, 

 fowls, venifon, fifli, vegetables, fruits, &c. and the moft. 

 exquifite wiaes are often fquandered ia profufion ; after, 

 this a cup of ftrong coffee and a liqueur finifh the repaft^ 

 At fix o'clock he is again waited on by his overfeer, at- 

 tended as in the morning by negro-drivers and prifoners^ 

 when the flogging once more having continued for fome^^ 

 time, and the neceffary orders being given for the next, 

 day's work, the afTembly is difmiffed, and the evening, 

 fpent with weak punch, fangaree, cards- and tobacco. — 

 His worfliip generally begins to yawn about ten or, eleven 

 o'clock, when he withdraws, and is undrefied by his footy. 

 pages. He then retires to refl, where he pafTes- the night 

 in the arms of one or other of his fable fultanas (for he 

 always keeps a feraglio) till about fix in the, morning, 

 % when he again repairs to his piazza walk, where his pipe 

 and coffee are waiting for him ; and where, with the rif- 

 ing fun, he begins his round of. diflipation, like a petty, 

 monarch, as capricious as he is defpotic and defpifeable. 

 Such abfolute power indeed, cannot fail, to be peculiarly 

 a delightful 



