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Some account of Brimstone-Hill in Montserrat -- Favourable change in the author's situation -- He commences merchant with three pence -- His various success in dealing in the different islands, and America, and the impositions he meets with in his transactions with Europeans -- A curious imposition on human nature -- Danger of the surfs in the West Indies -- Remarkable instance of kidnapping a free mulatto -- The author is nearly murdered by Doctor Perkins in Savannah.
In the preceding chapter I have set before the reader a few of those many instances of oppression, extortion, and cruelty, which I have been a witness to in the West Indies: but, were I to enumerate them all, the catalogue would be tedious and disgusting. The punishments of the slaves on every trifling occasion are so frequent, and so well known, together with the different instruments with which they are tortured, that it cannot any longer afford novelty to recite them; and they are too shocking to yield delight either to the writer or the reader. I shall therefore hereafter only mention such as incidentally befell myself in the course of my adventures.