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CHAP, he imagined himfelf gradually rivetted to the fpot. 



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, _ • However," continued he, " my reafon remained ; and 

 'u my refolution getting the better of my alarm, I fud- 

 denly approached him, and with one ftroke of my 

 cudgel knocked out his brains.'' 



On the 3d of March my friend de Graaf failed for Hol- 

 land, but firft for St. Euftatia, where his brother was 

 governor; and to my great fatisfa(5lion took with him 

 Joanna's youngeft brother, Henry, for whom he has 

 fince obtained his freedom. I failed with them down 

 the river as far as Bram's Point, and wifhed them a 

 fuccefsful voyage. As I here went afliore in a fifhing- 

 boat, I was tempted to leap into the fea, and enjoy the 

 cooling and healthy pleafure of fwimming in the At- 

 lantic ocean. The fiflier-men having caught a quantity 

 of large fifh, I difcovered one among them not yet men- 

 tioned in my narrative, this was the yellow-back, between 

 two and three feet long, thus called from its colour, 

 which almoft refembles that of a lemon, but the belly is 

 white : the head is very large, with two long barbs ; but 

 the body is fmall, and without fcales, like the cod ; it is, 

 however, not near fo good, being coarfe and infipid 

 eating. Two other fmall fifhes I alfo faw in the boat, 

 the one called here the weepee, refembling a whip-lalli ; 

 he other waracoo, which is a delicate eating, but has 

 nothing in its form or habits deferving a particular 

 defcription. 



The 8th of March, being the Prince of Orange's birth- 

 day, 



