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and I begged to know for what cirme he had been so flogged, but he would not tell me; he intreated me not to ask, and owned he had deserved it and more: the marks were of great antiquity, there was nothing recent. Abdallah was spotless-or stripeless, if I may use the word.

CHAPTER XXIX.

February 9-Monday.

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I CAME over to Kingston on the 5th, by a very pleasant excellent road, having the mountains of St. Andrew, or Liguanea mountains, (on my left, and the blue mountains towering beyond them into the clouds. The mornings are very cool in Kingston to my feeling, and there is a freshness in the air that I have not perceived before, since I have been in the island, probably from the land wind here blowing directly down from the lofties tregion. The first person I met in Kingston was the Israelite, Peter Nunnez, with Cobbett's letter to Mr. Wilberforce in his hand, which he begged me to read. "There," he said, “you will see the Saint unsainted, the real naked two-legged animal, that has had influence enough, and venom enough, to poison the minds of all your countrymen, even down to

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very meanest rabble, the gaol birds, the refuse of the hulks, the mutilated beggars in the highway, who hawk about his twopenny trash, and cry, 'down with slavery.' You ought to persuade your friends, who are slaveowners, to have this letter read aloud every Sunday morning on their estates, to all the individuals, white, brown, and black, who belong to the establishment; a public crier ought to proclaim it weekly in every market; it ought to be copied in letters of gold, and placarded throughout the island. If I had sugar works, or a coffee plantation, I would teach all my negroes to read, if it were only that they should read this; and the children should learn it by heart. I would put it in the form of a catechism, and the whole population should repeat it once a month. I would make a game of it, like the royal game of goose or trou-madame, or hopscotch, and designate every department of such game by one of the important circumstances of this man's life,-by one of the miseries among his own countrymen, to which he has contributed, either by his indifference or his perverseness. Here I would have," continued he, "Habeas Corpus Bank Stoppage-Imprisonment Bill

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of-nine-tails-Starved Irishmen-Manchester Massacre Six Acts, &c. &c.-And why not have an effigy of him shewn about at so much a head?—This is your patron, the W—f-e, your doctor, see how much he has done for the souls of the English and the Irish! He wants to do as much for you all;—take these pills; they are gratis, and a little griping, but their effect is miraculous. They elevate your ideas to a cross piece of wood, called a gibbet, and they can move the mountains of Jamaica to the middle of St. Domingo, or those of middle of Jamaica.'

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There, sir," he added, "take it, read it; a friend has sent me one hundred copies. I wish he had sent me a thousand,-I could have sold them all in a week."

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I took the important pamphlet, intending to peruse it at my leisure, and put it into my pocket, while I enquired of him respecting Edward Currie and the pirate, which, he told me, had been taken by an English schooner, and there were great hopes the crew would be hanged. Currie had got a birth in an American ship, with his old messmates, to return to their employers. He might have

had as good a birth in an English merchantman, but he would venture there no more, as, in case of a war, he would infallibly be pressed again into a King's ship.

Nunnez invited me to dinner, and bade me welcome to his house, where he wished me to remove; but for health's sake I have been advised to sleep out of the town at a lodging house, where they dance every night, and I of course must join in the frolic, so that I get but little advantage from my airy situation. It is so airy, however, that I cannot bear the jealousies open at night.

This town is most beautifully situated on the edge of the harbour, from which the land rises to the north, until it terminates at the Blue Mountain Peak. The streets, or rather roads, for there is no pavement, are wide and spacious, and in many places you may walk under piazzas for a length of way, although few white persons walk about the town, except in Port Royal Street, or Harbour Street, which are the general resort of men of business, being composed of stores and counting houses; a top chaise is the convenient vehicle, that is, a gig, with an awning of leather to keep off the sun's rays, which

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