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were execrable, and the jolts made me every 
moment apprehenfive that the waggon would 
be overturned and daihed to pieces; but he 
would have thoiight it derogatory from hi$^ 
honour if he had gone a foot pace, and his 
politenefs coft me tv^o jars of lime-juice, which 
were broken in the paffage, and the lofs of 
which I extremely regretted. 
Irreparable as this accident was in my fitua- 
tion, I confoled myfelf with the refledion,^ 
that much worfe might have happened. But 
I was grieved to the heart, when, fhortly after 
my having alighted at Engelbrecht's, I faw 
Pinar arrive. The fight of this man was be- 
come a torment to me, and it feemed as if he 
had fworn never to quit me more. 
The fituation of Engelbrecht's plantation 
was infinitely more pleafant than that of his 
brother-in-law : yet his houfe, or to fpeak more 
properly his (hed, was, if poffible, ftill lefs 
babitable, and announced the indifference in this 
refpeft of the mafter and his family, which wa.^ 
very numerous* On my entering the apart- 
ment, which was the fole retreat of all the in- 
habitants of the plantation, I was furrounded 
by a crowd of children of all ages, whom I 
at 
