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fliips on his own troops, he never deiiberateiy put a c H A P. 

 rebel negro captive to death, nor even, if he could 

 avoid it, delivered them into the hands of juftice ; well 

 knowing, that while it was his duty to expel them> 

 nothing but the moft barbarous ufage and tyranny had 

 driven thefe poor people to this laft extremity. Indeed 

 I myfelf, whom during the firft three years he perfe- 

 cuted with unremitting feverity, mud do him the juf- 

 tice to fay, that he was indefatigable in doing his duty; 

 and that, though confufed, I believe him at bottom to 

 have been an undaunted and very brave officer. 



He further acquainted us, that the veffels, with a frefli 

 fupply of provhions from Holland, had been caft on the 

 lee-fhore in the Texel Roads, one of them having her 

 upper cabin ftove away, with the fecond mate and three 

 of her men wafhed overboard ; he added, however, that 

 part of the ftores had been faved, and loaded on board 

 two bilanders^ which were this very day arrived in the 

 River Surinam. And now, fo much in particular was I 

 become his favourite, that he even made me his confi- 

 dant ; and declared, that he propofed keeping the laft ar- 

 rived troops, however faft they were dying away (and 

 who had lately loft a man by ftraying in the woods) en- 

 camped for many months after our departure. He then 

 began to tell me what ofEcei's he meant, if poffible, to 

 ruin on their return, and which, by his recommendation^ 

 he intended to promote : but here I took the liberty to 

 ftop him fhort, by declaring, upon my honour, that thofe 

 very gentlemen fliould be apprifed by myfelf of their im- 



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