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^-^yj " A generous friendflilp no eold medium knows, 



But with one love, with one refentment glows." 



Their abominable cruelties alfo, like thofe of all barba- 

 I'ous nations^ are truly fnocking. In the colony of Ber- 

 bicCj during the late revolt, they made no fcruple of cut- 

 ting lip their miftreffes with child, even in their mafler's 

 prefence, with many other favage devices too dreadful to 

 relate -In the art of poifoning, not even the AccawaW' 

 Indians are more expert ; they can carry it under their 

 nails, and by only dipping their thumb into a tumbler of 

 water, which they offer as a beverage to the obje6l of 

 their revenge, they infufe a flow but certain death t. 

 Whole eftates, as well as private families, have become the 

 vidfims of their fury, and experienced their fatal ven- 

 geance, even putting to death fcores of their own friends 

 and relations, with the double view of depriving their 



* It Is a well-known faft, that a ne- out to them that he was now fully re-- 



gro, having been ill-treated by the family venged, leaped down himfelf, and daflhed 



in which he lived as a fervant, one day out his own brains amongft the amazed 



took the following defpexate revenge:— fpedtators. Another, ftabbed the in- 



The mafter and miftrefs being from home, offenfive hufband to be revenged on the 



he, having locked all the doors, at their guilty wife ; declaring, that to kill herfelf 



return prefented himfelf with their three was only temporary, but to lofe all that 



fine children on the platform on the top was dear to her muft be eternal bitter- 



of the houfe. When afked why he did not nefs, while to himfelf it was the fweeteft 



give admittance, he only anfwered by fatisfaftion. 

 throwing an infant baby to the ground : 



they threatened— he tolled down the bro- f After the moft fcrupulous enquiry, 



ther : they intreated, but to no pui pofe, and even ocular demonftration, I can af- 



the third fharing the fame fate, who all lay fert the above as literally true. 



4ead at their parents* feet— thexi calling 



proprietors 



