TRAVELS IN 
refided at the diftance of fcarcely a league, wc 
purfued our route towards it, and encamped 
near a large pond, where we at length had the 
fatisfadion of finding water in abundance. 
The owner of thefe flieep was named Adam 
Robenhymer^ and his plantation was called 
Kevcec'Faley* I received every mark of po- 
Mtenefs from this gentleman, as well as from 
bis family, which confifted of only two daugh- 
ters. One of them, Dina Sagrias- de-Beer, the 
daughter of "his wife by a former hufband, 
was one of the moft beautiful African ladies I 
had ever feen. Thefe charming hofts prefTed 
me to fpend a few days with them ; and the 
bewitching Dina joined to her invitation fuch 
mild and natural graces, that I readily yielded 
to her repeated folicitations, and confented to 
remain a few days. In the evening, however, 
I did not fail to pay a vifit to my camp, ac- 
cording to my ufual cuftom^ as the place 
where I v/as, and the neceffity of preferving 
good order, made me more than ever lay it 
down as an invariable rule not to fleep out of 
it : I w^as befides fo much accuftomed to my 
hard mattrefs, that a fofter or more commodi- 
ous bed would really have prevented me from 
fleeping. This agreeable repofe for a few 
days 
