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having hanged himfelf; alledging, that to touch him, ac- 

 cording to their prejudices, (being Germans) would ren- 

 der them as infamous as himfelf. Wherefore, by my 

 orders, he was taken down, and interred by the negroes. 



An order at lafl came for my relief, and I immediately 

 fet out for Goed-i\ccoord, in company with Captain Bolts ; 

 where the planter, Mr. de Lange, and his lady, received 

 us with great hofpitality. This fugar eftate being the 

 fartheft that is cultivated in Rio Come win a, and confe- 

 quently expofed to the neighbourhood of the rebel ne- 

 groes, makes the flaves liable to their feduftions ; they 

 are therefore treated with peculiar kindnefs and indul- 

 gence, to prevent their concurring in any infurre(5lion, or 

 being perfuaded to leave their prefent Htuation. 



Here we faw a great novelty indeed, the young negro 

 women waiting at the table all flark naked, as they came 

 into the world. I was at $rft ftartled at the unufual ap- 

 pearance ; and afking the caufe, was modeftly anfwered 

 by the lady of the houfe, that it was ordered fo by their 

 mothers and matrons, to prevent (by fuch means of de-' 

 tedlion, faid they) their too early intercoiirfe with the 

 males, and child-bearing, which would fpoil their fliapes, 

 weaken their ftrength, and cramp their growth. Indeed 

 finer made figures I never beheld than were both the 

 men (witnefs Philander) and the women on this plan- 

 tation, whofe beautiful fliapes, livelinefs, ftrength, and 

 a6livity, were inferior to no Europeans. 



Next day we departed for Magdenburg an hour before 



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