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2;ar*, fpermaceti-candles, onions, &:c. Befides each veffel chap. 

 is bound to bring in one horfe t, which they often fupply y^,,,.,,^,.-^^ 

 by a head only ; affirming, that they put on board a horfe, 

 but that he died on the paffage. For the above commo- 

 dities the American traders export all the melaffes of this 

 colony to diftil into rum at home, and frequently fliip- 

 loads of other producStions and merchandize, though 

 this is done in a clandeftine manner, by which both the 

 feller and buyer are conliderable gainers, being ready 

 cafli for the one, and a cheap bargain for the other. 

 From the Leeward Illands thefe veHels alfo import pri- 

 vate mulatto and quaderoon flaves, which being gene- 

 rally young and handfome, whatever may be their mo- 

 ral charader, fell for confiderable prices. 



Having thus fliewn, according to the beft information 

 I was able to acquire, in what the commerce and intrinfic 

 wealth of this fine colony conlift ; I will now take my 

 leave of the fubje6t, and continue my narrative. 



On the 2ift of February, Mr. Reyn/dorp, the fon-in- 

 law of Mrs. Godefroy, took me in his fail barge for 

 change of air to Nuten-Schadelyk^ one of his own cotFee 

 eftates ; where I faw a white man who had lately loft 

 both his eyes in one night by the bats or vampires, as 

 they are called ; and the following day, failing up Come- 

 wina River, we proceeded to the delightful Cacao plan— 



* I have faid they can make no rum here ; neither do they refine fugar» 

 t Mr. Hartzink mentions four horfes, but this is a miftake. 



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