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c A p. The Colonelj in a word, was now quite the reverfe of 

 "^^'IZlj "^^^^^ been before, and upon the whole fo very- 



agreeable in his manners, that I would never wifh to 

 fpend my time in better company ; but how I fliould be- 

 come at once the favourite of both thefe rival com- 

 manders, was a fecret I could never yet difcover, unlefs it 

 might proceed from a defire of gaining mc from each 

 other, as they flill continued mutual enemies : be that as 

 it may, I refolved to preferve the moli inflexible neutra- 

 lity, as I alfo did between them and the governor, where 

 I was invited next day, and dined not on falt-beef, but 

 found as ufual a truly magnificent entertainment. 



Thus I continued daily vifiting my friends, viz. Mrs. 

 Godefroy, the Demellys, the Gordons, the Mac Neylsj 

 S^:c. I alfo fpent a very agreeable day with the black 

 Mrs. Sampfon, or Zubly, who was now a widow. 



I was prefent too at a mulatto ball, compofed however 

 not of flaves, but of free independant fettlers. Here the 

 mufic, the lights, the country dances, the fupper, and, 

 above all, the drefles were fo fuperb, and their behaviour 

 fo decent and genteel, that the whole might ferve as a 

 model for decorum and etiquette to fome of the fairer 

 and more polifhed inhabitants. 



On the 20th, obferving a number of Indians and black 

 people of both fexes fwimming at the back of Fort Ze-- 

 landia, young Donald Mac I\eyl and myfelt compleated 

 the groupe, by Gripping and gettmg in among them ; 

 and I mult confefs 1 never beheld more furprifing feats 



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