aed PWENTY-FIFTH EVENING.

Lut droves of black slaves in the fields, toiling m the
burning sun, under the constant dread of the lash of
hard-hearted task-masters ;—it was what I could not
bring myself to bear; and though I might have been
made ap overseer of a plantation, I chose rather to
live ina town, and follow some domestic occupation.
I couldsoon have got rich there; but I fell into a bad
state of health, and people were dying all around me
of the yellow fever; so I collected my little property,
and, though a wat had broken out, I ventured to
embark with it for England.

“The ship was taken and carried into the Hayanna,
znd Tlost my all, and my liberty besides. However,
I had the good fortune to ingratiate myself with a
Spanish merchant whom I had known at Jamaica,
and he took me with him to the continent of South
America. I visited great part of this country, once
possessed by flourishing and independent nations, but
now groaning under the severe yoke of their haughty
conquerors. I saw those famous gold and silver
mines, where the poor natives work naked, for ever
shut out from the hght of day, m order that the
wealth of their unhappy land may go to spread luxury
and corruption throughout the remotest regions of
Europe.

“TL accompanied my master across the great southern
ocean, a voyage of some months, without the sight of
anything but water and sky. We came to the rich
city of Manilla, the capital of the Spanish settlements
in those parts. There I had my liberty restored, along
with a handsome reward for my services. I got
thence to China, and from China to the English settle-
ments in the East Indies, where the sight of my coun-
trymen, and the sounds of my native tongue, made
me fancy myself almost at home again, though still
separated by half the globe.

_ “Here I saw a delightful country, swarming with
industrious inhabitants, some cultivating the iand,
others employed in manufactures, but of so gentle and