from India, with some hundreds of camels, laden with different goods.  The people of these caravans are quite brown.  Among other articles, they brought with them a great quantity of locusts, which are a kind of pulse, sweet and pleasant to the palate, and in shape resembling French beans, but longer.  Each kind of goods is sold in a street by itself, and I always found the Turks very honest in their dealings.  They let no Christians into their mosques or churches, for which I was very sorry; as I was always fond of going to see the different modes of worship of the people wherever I went.  The plague broke out while we were in Smyrna, and we stopped taking goods into the ship till it was over.  She was then richly laden, and we sailed in about March 1770 for England.  One day in our passage we met with an accident which was near burning the ship.  A black cook, in melting some fat, overset the pan into the fire under the deck, which immediately began to blaze, and the flame went up very high under the foretop.  With the fright the poor cook became almost white, and altogether speechless.  Happily however we got the fire out without doing much mischief.  After various delays in this passage, which was tedious, we arrived in Standgate creek in July; and, at the latter end of the year, some new event occurred, so that my noble captain, the ship, and I all separated.

In April 1771 I shipped myself as a steward with Capt.  Wm. Robertson of the ship Grenada Planter, once more to try my fortune in the West Indies; and we sailed from London for Madeira, Barbadoes, and the Grenades.  When we were at this last place, having some goods to sell, I met once more with my former kind of West India customers.  A white man, an islander, bought some goods of me to the amount of some pounds, and made me many fair promises as usual, but without any intention of paying me.  He had likewise bought goods from some more of our people, whom he intended to serve in the same manner; but he still amused us with promises.  However, when our ship was loaded, and near sailing, this honest buyer discovered no intention or sign of paying for any thing he had bought of us; but on the contrary, when I asked him for my money he threatened me and another black man he had bought goods of, so that we found we were like to get more blows than payment.  On this we went to complain to one Mr. M’Intosh, a justice of the peace; we told his worship of the man’s villainous tricks, and begged that he would be kind enough to see us redressed:  but being negroes, although free, we could not get any remedy; and our ship being then just upon the point of sailing, we knew not how to help ourselves, though we thought it hard to lose our property in this manner.  Luckily for us however, this man was also indebted to three white sailors, who could not get a farthing from him; they therefore readily joined us, and we all went together in search of him.  When we found where he was, I took him