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CHAP. Another plan of murdering with impunity has often 

 i^^^llLf ^^^^ pradice. The flave is fattened naked to a 



tree in the foreft, with his arms and legs extended, under 

 pretence of llretching his limbs ; but here he is left, and 

 regularly fed, until he is adtually ilung to death by the 

 mufquitoes and other infe<5ls — a moil infernal punifli- 

 ment, and fuch as may be with truth afcribed to the in- 

 {ligation of the devil ! Drowning them, by kicking them 

 overboard with a weight chained to their legs, is called 

 accidental death. It has been known that by the orders 

 of a woman, negro flaves have been privately burnt to 

 death, miferably chained in a furrounding pile of flam- 

 ing faggots. As to the breaking out of their teeth, mere- 

 ly for tailing the fugar-cane cultivated by themfelves, 

 flitting up their nofes, and cutting off their ears, from 

 private pique, thefe are accounted mere fport, and not 

 worthy to be mentioned. 



By fuch inhuman ufage this unhappy race of men are 

 fometimes driven to fuch a height of defperation, that to 

 finifli their days, and be relieved from worfe than Egyp- 

 tian bondage, fome even have leaped into the caldrons of 

 boiling fugar, thus at once depriving the tyrant of his 

 crop and of his fervant. 



From thefe Iketches can it be a matter of furprize, 

 that armies of rebels are affembled in the foreft, and at 

 every opportunity thirfting for revenge ? 



I fhall now conclude this dreadful fcene by one general 

 * remark, 



