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venturers were led to expect food, clothings 

 money, and land; instead of which, considerable 

 numbers were half-starved to death, then 

 goaded by their sufferings to rebellion, and 

 after being exposed to the ferocity of a popula- 

 tion of furious black slaves, armed on purpose 

 to destroy them, the greater part of those who 

 survived an indiscriminate slaughter, were ship- 

 ped off again to Ireland, to learn that " charity 

 begins at home." 



Our road lay through a sandy lane, with im- 

 pervious underwood growing on both sides. 

 On the one hand was a narrow strip of -green 

 brushwood, bounded by the bay and its beauti- 

 ful scenery; on the other, a large plain of wood 

 was flanked by several soft-looking hills, also 

 covered with timber to their summits. Over 

 these again appeared the ragged and curiously- 

 formed tops of the Organ mountains, which are 

 so called, I conclude, from their perpendicular 



