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promontory to look out for a sail. His reflections
on the present state of his mind and feelings.
Projects new undertakings-works at them daily

They descry a canoe approaching the island-how
they act on the occasion incidents attendant on
their first intercourse with the strangers

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negroes their sympathy and usefulness

the negroes spent their first Sabbath on the island.
Their visit to a second island just opposite - they
accomplish the circuit of the first island. A turtle
feast. Harvest- the product of Seaward's labours
got in.-May rains. Cabbage palms. The ne-
groes make some progress in Christian knowledge.
Seaward begins to build a good house at the
silk-cotton tree plantation

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Description of the grounds under cultivation. The
negroes' story of themselves, and escape from ship-
Many excellent reflections.

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wreck.

harvest got in. A storm on the 1st of Sept. (1733)

-Eliza's birth-day celebrated-Seaward remarks,

it was then he began to write his diary. The new

mansion finished—their first night there, they call

it Plantation House. Eliza resumes her English

attire

Seaward

the negroes properly clothed.
arranges his fire-arms account of his library.
A place stoccadoed off for the live-stock.
Christmas day. The negroes circumnavigate the
second or western island. Hurricane. Guns

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SIR EDWARD SEAWARD'S

NARRATIVE.

CHAPTER I.

BORN of loyal and honest parents, whose means were just sufficient to give a common education to their children, I have neither to boast of pedigree nor of learning; yet they bequeathed to me a better inheritance a stout constitution, a peaceable disposition, and a proper sense of what is due to my superiors and equals: for such an inheritance I am grateful to God, and to them.

I had not left school long when I felt an inclination to see foreign parts, and under this impression I desired earnestly to go to sea; but my poor dear mother would not hear of it, and I could not find it in my heart to grieve her, even for a moment: so I yielded up my inclination to my duty, and during two years was content to assist my father in the management of his little farm; taking the diversions of fishing and shooting, in their seasons, by way of amusement and recreation. At the expiration of this time, my paternal uncle sent for me to Bristol, and placed me in his counting-house. Within a year from this event, I lost my dear

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