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 THE

LIFE AND ADVENTURES

OF

PETER WILLIAMSON.

born in the parish of Aboyne, Aberdeen, of respectable parents, who sent me very to live with an aunt at Aberdeen; when,  the years of pupillarity, one playing on  quay with others of my companions—being  a stout robust constitution—I was taken notice  by two fellows belonging to a vessel in the , employed, in the trade called kidnapping; that is stealing young children from their , and selling them as slaves in plantations. Being market out by those monsters of piety as their prey, I was cajoled on board the by them, where I was no sooner got, than  conducted me between the decks to some  they had kidnapped in the same manner.

that time, I had no sense of the fate that was for me, and spent the time in childish