100 TlMEHRI. 
The Spaniard seeing the driver of Hope and Success, 
arranged with him to convey all JOHN CoziER'S gang of 
slaves, seventy in number, to the Oronoko. The driver 
was quite agreeable to the arrangement, and during a 
Sunday night all hands were taken on board, and pro- 
ceeded to the Waini River. JOHN COZIER missing his peo- 
ple proceeded to the Postholder and related the circum- 
stance to him ; he the (Postholder) manned his sloop and 
followed the launch which, with all the negroes, he 
found on the shell bank at the mouth of the Waini. The 
Postholder after securing all hands proceeded to George- 
town and lodged the negroes and Spaniards in the 
Georgetown Jail. In those distant days jail fees were 
very high, and JOHN Cozier, on that account, could not 
release them as soon as he wished ; but when he did 
succeed he took his slaves back again to Hope and 
Success, but fearing another escape he purchased 
Uitvlugt Estate, Demerara River, and put them on it — 
leaving Hope and Success in a state of abandonment 
for more than fifty five years. 
