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CHAP, expected, and while near forty beautiful boys and girls 



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were left to perpetual flavery .by their parents of my ac- 

 quaintance, and many of them without being fo much 

 as once enquired after at all. 



What is moft extraordinary indeed is, that while the 

 well-thinking few highly applauded my fenlibility, many 

 not only blamed, but publicly derided me for my paternal 

 affection, which was called a wefknefs, a whim. So extra- 

 vagant was my joy on this day, however, at having acfled. 

 the reverfe part of Inkle to Tarico^ that I became like 

 one frantic with pleafure. I not only made my will in his 

 favour (though, God knows, I had little to difpofe of) but 

 I appointed my friends Mr. Robert Gordon and Mr. James 

 Gourlay to be my executors and his guardians during 

 my abfence, in whofe hands I left all my papers fealed, 

 till I fhould demand them again, or they fhould be in- 

 formed of my death : I then ordered all my flieep, poul- 

 try, &c. which had prodigioufly encreafed, to be tranf- 

 ported, and put under their care ; and making a new fuit 

 of cloaths for the occalion, which coft; me twenty guineas, 

 I waited on a Mr. Snyderbans^ one of the clergymen at 

 Paramaribo, to appoint a day when my boy,, my Johnny 

 Stedman, fhould be made a Ghriftian*. 



On 



* I fhould not here omit to mention defending the fettleraentagainft all home 

 that in the colony of Surinam all eman- and foreign enemies, 

 cipated flaves are under the following No emancipated flave, male or female, 

 rellrictions, vi%. • can ever go to law at all againft their 



They are (if males) bound to help in former mafter or miftrefs.. 



And 



