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CHAP. XXIX, 



Some Account of a remarkable Negro. ^The I'r oops prepare 

 for Europe. — Befcriptlon Of a Coffee Plantation, — Plan 

 of Reform for the Increafe of Population^ and univerfal 

 Happinefs. — One more Inflance of horrid Barbarity; 

 and Example of Humanity. — The Regiment embarks, 



BEING now once more arrived in town, and wifhing CHAP, 

 XXIX 

 to be no longer troublefome to any body, I hired a « _ _ 



very neat fmall houfe by the water-fide, in which we 



lived nearly as happy as we had done at the Hope. 



The firft perfon that vifited me here was the American 

 Captain Lewis, of the Peggy, who, to my great concern, 

 told me, that poor Macdonald, the grateful failor, had 

 died on the homeward pafTage, after being twelve days at 

 fea; and defired him in his laft words to return me, with 

 his good willies, the mother-of-pearl cork-fcrew I had 

 formerly given him. He farther acquainted me alfo, to 

 my forrow, that three Engliili veffels had been captured 

 by the American Revenue privateer floop, which lay at 

 this time, with her prizes, in the road before Paramaribo; 

 one of which, belonging to Ireland, w^as valued at above 

 ^. 5O5O00 llerling. 



Having been waited on by a number of planters and • 

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