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C H A P. "I have a fpirit to accept of you not as my Have, but more 

 " as my companion : you fliall have a hoiife built in my 



orange-garden, with my own flaves to attend you, till 

 " Providence fhall call me away, when you lhall be per- 



fedtfy free, as indeed you now are the moment you 



wifl'i to poiTefs your manam.iffion; and this you claim 



both by your extra6lion and your condu6l On 

 thefe terms, and on no other, I accepted of the money 

 on the 5th, and carrying it in my hat to Mr. de Graav's, 

 I laid it on his table, demanding a receipt in full; and 

 Joanna was transferred from the wretched eftate Fau- 

 conberg, to the prote£tion of the firft woman perhaps in 

 all the Dutch Weft-Indies, if not in the world; and for 

 which flie thanked me with a look that could only be ex- 

 prefied by the countenance of an angel. 



Mr. de Graav, on counting the money, addrefTed me in 

 the following terms : — " Stedman, two hundred florins of 

 " this fum belong to me as adminiftrator. Permit me 



alfo to have a fmall fhare in this happy event, by not 

 " accepting this dividend, as I fhall find myfelf amply 

 " paid by the pleafure of having been inftrumental in 

 " bringing about Vv^hat feems fo much to contribute to 

 ** the enjoyment of two deferving people." 



Having thanked my difinterefted friend with an affec- 

 tionate fhake by the hand, I immediately returned the 



* I have already merftioned that Joanna moft diftlnguifhed people on the coaft of 

 was by b;<rth a gentleman's daughter from Africa. 

 Holland ; and her mother's family were 



two 



