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©a our arrival at this ftation, I indeed found every hard chap. 



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means employed to bring me to terms ; and fiich was the , ^^-Ij. 

 fevere ufage I experienced, that one of the rangers, called 

 Captain ^€ici, exclaimed, " If in this manner thefe En-* 

 " ropeans treat one another, is it to be vv^ondered at that 

 " they fliould take a pleafure in torturing us pooir 

 " Africans r " 



At Devil's Harvvar, however,, my ftormy voyage drew 

 to a conclufion. Colonel Seyburg was evidently con- 

 vinced that he was wrong, and knowing what muft" fol- 

 low, now only wiflied for a handfome opportunity of ex- 

 tricating himfelf from the effects of his unmanly paflion.,, 

 On the 2d of OxSlober, therefore, he afked me with a 

 fmile,," If I had a heart to forget and forgive ?" To which, 

 I fternly anfwered, " No I" — He repeated the queftion. — 

 I then faid, " I venerated, truth, and would never confefs^ 

 ^ myfelf in an error, unlefs my heart coincided in the. 



acknowledgment — that this was a conceflion I would 

 ^ make to no man living, and leaft of all to him."— >He 

 here grafped my hand, begged me to be pacified, and; 

 declared, " That he would make peace on any terms ;'' — 

 but L again drew back with contempt,, and decidedly 

 avowed, " That I could not agree to any compromife, un- 



lefs he owned bis fault, in the pre fence of all the offi- 



cers,with his own hands tearing from his journal every ^ 

 " fentence that could reflecSl upon my chara(51er." The 

 journals were immediately produced, my arms were re- 

 turned me, and my triumph was attended with every 



circuraftance 



