Ch a p . to the beft bidder. After what has been related, the
IX. reader may form fame judgment ofimy furprize and con-
fufian, when I found amcmg' them ;; my „ ïödlïmable
Joanna ; the -fugar-eflate Fancoiiberg, wim^iisïi^hfóle
flock, being this day fold by an execution, for the benefit
of the creditors of its late poffeffor, Mr, D. B. who
had fled.
I now felt all the horrors of the danMï’d. T I ’ bewailed
again and again my unlucky fortune, that did not enable
. me to become her proprietor myfelf, and' in my mind I
continually painted her enfuing dreadful fituation. I
fancied I faw her tortured, infulted, and bowing under the
weight of her chains, calling aloud, hut in vain,- for my
afliftanee. I was mifefable, and indeed nearly deprived
of all my faculties, till reftorcd by the aflurances of my
friend^ Mr. Lolkens, who providentially was appointed
to continue adminiftratur of the fetete dufm^ thë aMence
of its new pofleflors, Mefirs. P'ajfdege. and fon, at Am-
fterdam, who boughtk and its dependants for only four
thousand pbunds.
No fooner was he confirmed in his appointment,
than this difinterefted and Heady friend brought jefenna
to my prefence ; and pledged himfelf, that in every fer-
vice which he could render to myfelf or her, and whifch
he had now more m his power, than ever, no efforts on
his fide fliould be wanting. This promife I defired. him.
to keep in remembrance, and accordingly he ever fince
maft nobly perfevered.
8 Being
-iBéidg 4'nförmed that"©olâàel Fourgeóiid had left Çraw-
affiböéftate,/ and "entered the Woods juft above the plan-
t'atibaq©lp.ri|®fcfeok, -Onhis way to (the Wafiar Creek, .to’ try
if fie'could fall in 'withtbe'ffebëlè/I reqnefiied, By- a let-
ter, that I - might :j óm . him -f here'. as foon as 'I fliould-be
'fecóvemf,iand havinguihipped>;0if^forn the lafl-men-
tfeMed reflate rmedicine®rahd-ifuçh furgéoris' of:ùurs É&
h^#been lëfeiatPâràmafibcipremployed Mr. Greber, the
fargMrt^f tfie: m f <§#h aUthbriiy, ahd at the
règimefifs» éîip'çiîdè'jVto attend officéfeiarfd^ol-'
diers,? who Wete'lfeft in town, 'deflitab'bfi'éâfli-, | and now
■Without afliftanee. "At the fanfefirne I alfo ordered to be
piirchafed two' moïé'ân'kfers o f'thé. beft claret Tor their
füppôM } Th'us> Wasd'determinedproperly4o avail'mÿfelf
of mÿ ddmbaiid^which af bëfl éöüld bW'Hfla few'daÿs
longer.
This evening my friend De La Mara toôkhis-dèpar-
ture, with his twenty-fiyç free mulattoes, for the, river
Surinam;- he being a captain of tbeftniliti^ -'âfidfhëy' being
infinitely preferable, to the EUrdpean fearecrows.
.'■'i',was> fö far recovered as to.be able'fd fide out every
morning, when the following Ludicrous adventure hap-
pened to me on the. road that Mads to Wânicag In this
place, a Mr. Van de Velde, boaffihg. how faft his horfe
could gallop, propofed' to me to run a race ; to which I
agreed, allowing him the ftart at tWenty paces diftance.
The ftart indeed he had,* but.did not long retainihis'ad-
'* | | E e . vantage,
CJHAP.