. , « From t ^ fene tirn fthey drink7 tte tmingled wine,
« And add libatioris to the pow’rs' divine.
« While thus their pray’rs united .mount the Iky,
« Hear, mighty Jetfcf and'’hear, y c god's1 dn ’high!
« And may their blood, who ftrffi the league confound;
i shed like this wine, diftain the thirfty ground [” ,
H omer’s
T h e foTetonity Being ended, the' c h ie f Ar&by afid
each/«fi h ir captains- trfferior
negroes, a s the^Serainibah'chief Adne’ had^bCeii
before; in 1749) was prefeintedriwith a.finelafgeicine and
filver paromeV -on which, was'alf® engraven the arms-of
the colony.
Thohaho-sre^it^niSoiied negroes' ar qxalled tO'tfcm:, aften
the name ' of the plantation,';where the vpfeace. radicles
were ligned; and'.by that" name: they? afr>© fincen dift®—
gjiiflied from thofe of Seramica, whom I . t a e -aiready
defcribed.:.
At this time the charter was reviewed to the Weft
India Company by their High MjghtinefTe.s, for the^erm
o f thirty years longer (as it.hafhbeen^fope in 1670V
1700, and 1730} in c on^ d e r a i i o n i b#- ibbtit ’fire;
million fterling, at the rate * of * fix per-cent-.'
This fame year .peaqe waS;; alfo, a: |ecppd tim.e.^ concluded
with the -Seramica rebels, who weid at that time
commanded by a negth-ca lled'lL^, inflead' of t f ieir
former chief Adoe,' who was dead. But this fecond
peace was unfortunately broken by a rebel captain, called
Muzinga, who had received none of the prefents, which
I ........ | , . ^ d
had in fabt been again intercepted and captured on their
way to th 'e d n e t PTM' .as they had- beeii 'formerly on
their way tp* the chief Adoe, by the very fame enter-
prifing and rapacious plunderer Zam Zam, with this
' difference :only, that none of the detachment that were
fe'hf with thfem wer'e^o wfiftiifdered^ *a^yon the Receding
•bcealidh^hdf e^en-ori'e Angle-perfon injured.'
vDpon Hhrft' fuppQfed'^rd^hof fa7th^ba|>iaitiIMuzihga
Todght moft d e f p d r a t e l y T i b i p v e
battle fale'toface, and beat back,at clofe quarter's^’'above
‘cmeTumdred and fift^cfftheir-Heft troops, killing niun-
and' fcafrying-off all their 'baggage^-arid- .'aihniii-
chftiAW.Trb
after this, however*' :wfceii' itid' real: cadfe-'”df
'MuEffl^^s dffcontent was known, means'wferg foxiadfand
adopted1 to pacify‘fM^allkrip-warrior,'by making him
■ fecdivdaridiRiafe the ^refehts'ffiJt huff-by- the ’eblbriifts,
’©nf'ian hqual'rrfdoting with' his brother 'Heroes, '-when
?peaces<wa!s a third and- laft' tiih^c^nhludednh 176%, between
thd^eratoic® rebels -afid the' cblbilyf which- has
IP&vCdenfaliy keh' kept>faa'ddthf#'ih¥f61kbr€,<-'as- Well as
that With thdOuca ne"gboTe§;.'to"thi-S'day; ' By their exertions
in the field they €hus obtained their freedom^
M M Liberty j : thaa goddefs, b ^ v ^ ly bright;
• jS$ IwijMm ^9^' f f egnant I with - delight f
f Eternal ^leafures in thy preTenW' ragn^J
diy •waBtori train,’.
K a * Eas’d