and also to see the town of Philadelphia, which I had heard a great deal about for some years past; besides which, I had always longed to prove my master’s promise the first day I came to him.  In the midst of these elevated ideas, and while I was about getting my little merchandize in readiness, one Sunday my master sent for me to his house.  When I came there I found him and the captain together; and, on my going in, I was struck with astonishment at his telling me he heard that I meant to run away from him when I got to Philadelphia:  ‘And therefore,’ said he, ’I must sell you again:  you cost me a great deal of money, no less than forty pounds sterling; and it will not do to lose so much.  You are a valuable fellow,’ continued he; ’and I can get any day for you one hundred guineas, from many gentlemen in this island.’  And then he told me of Captain Doran’s brother-in-law, a severe master, who ever wanted to buy me to make me his overseer.  My captain also said he could get much more than a hundred guineas for me in Carolina.  This I knew to be a fact; for the gentleman that wanted to buy me came off several times on board of us, and spoke to me to live with him, and said he would use me well.  When I asked what work he would put me to he said, as I was a sailor, he would make me a captain of one of his rice vessels.  But I refused:  and fearing, at the same time, by a sudden turn I saw in the captain’s temper, he might mean to sell me, I told the gentleman I would not live with him on any condition, and that I certainly would run away with his vessel:  but he said he did not fear that, as he would catch me again; and then he told me how cruelly he would serve me if I should do so.  My captain, however, gave him to understand that I knew something of navigation:  so he thought better of it; and, to my great joy, he went away.  I now told my master I did not say I would run away in Philadelphia; neither did I mean it, as he did not use me ill, nor yet the captain:  for if they did I certainly would have made some attempts before now; but as I thought that if it were God’s will I ever should be freed it would be so, and, on the contrary, if it was not his will it would not happen; so I hoped, if ever I were freed, whilst I was used well, it should be by honest means; but, as I could not help myself, he must do as he pleased; I could only hope and trust to the God of Heaven; and at that instant my mind was big with inventions and full of schemes to escape.  I then appealed to the captain whether he ever saw any sign of my making the least attempt to run away; and asked him if I did not always come on board according to the time for which he gave me liberty; and, more particularly, when all our men left us at Gaurdeloupe and went on board of the French fleet, and advised me to go with them, whether I might not, and that he could not have got me again.  To my no small surprise, and very great joy, the captain confirmed every syllable that I had said:  and