AFRICA. fliy 
ence, without which no traveller in Africa ,caqt 
extend his obfervations beyond the limits of 
the colony. 
To enhance the favour, the fifcal had left 
entirely to me the pleafure of communicating 
4:his intelligence, fo agreeable to the perfon 
whom it particularly concerned. How fweet 
is the recovery of freedom and honour! 
Scarcely had I uttered the words, you are free; 
fcarcely had I begun to relate what my friend 
had done for him, than, impelled by gratitude, 
and as if reftored to new life, the old man 
threw himfelf upon my neck, which he 
bathed with hi^ tears. I was ftrongly Im- 
prefTed and agitated. It feemed as if it were 
I that had been torn from banilhment and 
reftored to fociety. All the evils I had expe- 
rienced on board the Middleburg were at once 
pictured to my mind. I looked back, through 
a period of two years, to that difaftrous mo- 
ment, when I had myfelf flood in need of the 
pity of mankind ; a moment fo fatal, that it 
was impoflible for me to fuppofe I fhould one 
day have an opportunity of exercifmg towards 
another the fame commiferation, at once fo 
natural and afFeding, as I then experienced. 
When 
