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enabled them to drink fo much, that they 
were naufeated with it. Defirous of teftify- 
ing my gratitude to a family, which had 
rendered me already fome fervice, and was 
about to render me ftill more, I thought to 
cclipfe Pinar, and with this view I fent to my 
waggon for a cafe of bottles. This cafe was 
filled with the befl cordials from Martinico, 
manufactured by the celebrated Dame Anfoux, 
It was my gala ftore, referved for particular 
occafions, and I fancied that, by prefenting it 
to men but a fmgle remove from favages, I 
Ihould obtain their warmeft thanks ; but I was 
mlftaken ; the liquors were too fweet, and they 
abfolutely difliked them. The women, after 
having tafted them all pretty largely, one after 
the other, preferred them indeed to the bad 
brandy of the Cape ; but they unanimoufly 
agreed with the men, that the cordials of Dame 
Anfoux, however famous elfewhere, were of 
little worth in the African colony. 
Their ftrong throats, accuftomed for fome 
days to a pungent burning fpirit, were become 
infenfible to fo fweet and lufcious a beverage : 
the drinkers complained of being fick, and 
eurfed without ceremony the cafe and its 
contents, 
