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 met with a black negroe in the woods who directed us to another plantation, where we found about two hundred men and women negroes working at the ugar boiling, and grinding the ugar cnaescanes [sic], their mater came and aked what we was? and we freely told him we were prioners of war, and that we had come that road to avoid being taken aboard of the man of war, he then ordered us all to it down, and aked if we could drink any hot? (which is a jucejuice [sic] made from ugar) But conidering it might do us, harm ordered rum punch, and every man a herring and a plantin, which is like a green bean-code, aking what countrymen we were? And when we told him there were o many of us Scotchmen, he ordered all the Scotch to go up to his houe, where he treated us with the finet of cheer cheee, and the bet drink his houe could afford: He told us he was a native of Falkirk in Scotland, whoe name I do not here mention; he likewie ent ome of his negroes to be our guides, and ordered us to go into Kington two by two, which we did, and here we found our own hip, which was retaken from the French and carried in there.

I having now a great deire after the whale-fihing, where I aw a wonderful performance, done by a avage Indian in the traitsstreets(?) [sic] of St. David's; He came off the hore in a mall boat made of leather without andany [sic] wands within, having a piece of wood in his hand in hape like a long oar, broad at both the ends, and round in the middle, he troke the water firt with one end