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to meet me, firing their pieces and wifhing 
me a happy journey : aeircumftance that gave 
me the greateft imeafinefs, becaufe, harafTed by 
the noily reception of thefe planters, who were 
continually retarding my progrefs, I was obli* 
ged alfo, in my turn, tt) teftify my gratitude by 
burning my powder to no purpofe in thefe 
tirefome adieus. 
Thefe inconvenient vlfits confumed fo much 
of my time, that I had advanced as yet only 
four leagues. Next morning, I found my- 
felf in the diftridt of the Piquet mountains, 
and arrived, in good time, near the habitation 
of a refpedable veteran, named Albert Haane- 
kam. 
This planter w^as a kind of praftical phllo- 
fopher, who had devifed the means of render- 
ing himfelf at once both happy and free ; for 
happinefs and freedom are not always one and 
the fame thing. He had formed for himfelf 
a plan of life that had no refemblaace to that 
of his fellow- planters. Without wife or 
children, having no connection with his neigh- 
bours, and no company, in fhort, but that of 
his own flaves, he lived, as one may fay, alone ; 
yet knew fo well how to fupply the want of 
O 3 fociety, 
