TRAVELS THROUGH UPPER CANADA : 
and of finding a plentiful table well served 
every day. He has no less than thirty or forty 
negroes, who attend to his horses, cultivate 
his grounds, &c. These poor creatures are 
kept in the greatest subjection, and they dare 
not attempt to make their escape, for he has 
assured them, that if they did so he would 
follow them himself, though it were to the 
coniines of Georgia, and would tomahawk 
them wherever he met them. .They know his 
disposition too well not to think that lie 
would adhere strictly to his word. 
Brandt receives from government half pay 
as a captain, besides annual presents, &c. which 
in all amount, it is said, to 500Z. per annum. 
We had no small curiosity, as you may well 
imagine, to see this Brandt, and wc procured 
letters of introduction to him from the go¬ 
vernor’s secretary, and from different officers 
and gentlemen of his acquaintance, with an 
intention of proceeding from Newark to his 
village. Most unluckily, however, on the day 
before that of our reaching the town of 
Newark or Niagara, he had embarked on board 
a vessel for Kingston, at the opposite end of 
the lake. You may judge of Brandt’s conse¬ 
quence, when I tell you, that a lawyer of 
Niagara, who crossed Lake Ontario in the 
same vessel with us, from Kingston, where he 
had been detained for some time by contrary 
