ApnV S° t0 bed alone, while her huiband employed himfelf with U v J the hiftory of Josephus, in order to convince me o f his great attachment to ftudy. Accordingly many people in this country call their ilaves, fome after the months, and others after the days of the week in which they were born. Early in the morning I was waked here by the horrid fhrieks and cries o f January and February, who were undergoing the dif- eipline o f their mailer’s laih, becaufe the horfes had not been found the preceding evening. Soon after the family got ready for going to church, but were prevented by a ihower of rain. In the mean time we ate our break- fails, and drank to each others health; upon which I returned them thanks and took leave o f them, with a luncheon o f bread and butter doubled together, and fluffed into my coat-pocket by my hoil and hoilefs, by way o f (weegkojl) or. provifion for my journey. I was fecretly much affedted at receiving fuch tokens o f good-will, quite undeferved on my part, from the hands o f people to whom I was an entire itranger. The woman was goodnefs itfelf, but this goodnefs was enfhrined'in a mighty phlegmatic body. The old fellow’s phrafeology, as well as his library, difcovered, that he wsa, as well as myfelf, a run-away iludent. I likewife afterwards came to know, that he had been a furgeon, and had been fent thither as a foldier by kidnappers; and at the fame time I learned, that he had got the ■ greater part* o f his books by marriage with a parfon’s daughter, his prefent wife. This good woman could not have chofen, to counteract her phlegm, a more choleric piece o f goods for a huiband, who, in fpite of a naturally good diipoiition, was was faid, for trifling faults, to have beat feveral o f his j77*- ilaves to death. I could give you, Sir, many inftances, that l y y u the exercife of any crime whatfoever, particularly fuch as the flave trade, or the trafficking with the liberties o f mankind, never fails to plunge men into diforders and mif- demeanours o f various kinds. On the lands belonging to this farm Hands the Tower of Babel, fo they call a hill, which is mentioned by this name by Kolbf., as being o f a remarkable iize, and which will ever remain a Handing monument o f this author’s inaccuracy. I pafs over my little adventures with ferpents, fcorpions, cameleons, and other animals o f the lizard kind, well knowing, that you are not endued with tafte enough to take pleafure in, and be fenflble of, the- beauties of thefe reptiles, a race o f animals with which this Ganaan of- Africa abounds. But-I muft not omit to .tell you, how puzzled and undetermined we frequently were on our return, homewards, particularly once on a large plain. Almoft at the end o f it we met with feven of the company’s fervants or foldiers, but by no means to our advantage; for thefe my fellow-chriftians, intoxicated with the wine which they carried about them in leathern bottles or calabafles, were at variance among themfelves, and feemingly did not wiih to give us any information, as every one of ¡.them pointed out to us an almoft entirely different way. Jabbering to me all at once in High Dutch, Low Dutch, Hanoverian, 8cc. they all endeavoured to make me believe, that 1 ihould meet with rivers, mountains, de- ferts, and the like, if, according.to their fea dialedt, I did not fleer m.y >couffe right. Another afked me whither I was bound.?:
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