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their alarms on this fcore, by being informed that it had chap. 

 not received the fmalleil injury. XXVII. 



I had not been fourteen days on this plantation, when 

 a female mulatto flave, called Yettee^ for having jocofely 

 faid her miftrefs had fome debt as well as herfelf," was 

 flripped ftark naked, and in a very indecent as well a§ 

 inhuman manner flogged by two flout negroes before the 

 dwelling-houfe door (while both her feet were locked to 

 a heavy iron bolt) until hardly any ikin was left on her 

 thighs or fides. Five days after this I had the good for- 

 tune, however, to get her relieved from the iron-bolt, 

 which was locked acrofs her fliins : but a Mrs. Van Eys^ 

 alledging flie had affronted her alfo by her fancy lookSj 

 prevailed on Mrs. Goetzee to renew the punifliment the 

 fame week; when flie was actually fo cruelly beaten, that 

 I expelled flie could not have furvived it. 



Difgufled with this barbarity, I left the eflate Catwyk, 

 determined never more to return to // : but I ilill accom- 

 panying Mr. Goetzee to vifit fome of his other plantations 

 from curiofity, in Cottica and Pirica Rivers, at one of thefe, 

 called the^//^, a new-born female infant was prefented me 

 by way of compliment, to give it a name, which I called 

 Charlotte. But the next morning, during breakfafl:, fe- 

 ven negroes were here again tied up and flogged, fome 

 with a cow-Jkin, Vv^hich is very terrible.— Hence I made 

 my retreat to the eflate Sgraven-Hague, and there, meet-= 

 ing a mula\tto youth in chains, whofe name was Douglas^ 

 I with horror recolle6led his unhappy father, who had 



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