Note 3 — CHAP. V.
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The scene consisted in Mr. Macneyl’s turning the overseer out of his service, and ordering him to depart from the plantation in an inferior boat, called a ponkee3, to Paramaribo, or wherever he thought proper; which was instantaneously put in execution. The cause of his disgrace was having, by bad usage and cruelty, caused the death of three or four negroes. His departure was made compleatly joyful to all the slaves, by an holiday, which was spent in festivity, by dancing and clapping hands on a green before the dwelling-house windows.