This Mr. Wheatley, who has just left me, is certainly a very amusing man.
Every man of them fancies himself to be a member of the first families in Virginia, and would fain have his horses and hounds, and his score or two of negroes.
His complexion was warm, but delicate; and, altogether, he was a very handsome man.
He neither drinks nor gambles, nor fights cocks, nor anything; and yet he has contrived to muddle away all his money, and his plantation is mortgaged as high as it will go.
In New England they never fight if they can help it, are slaves to their own servants, and make wooden clocks and wooden nutmegs.
This Chesapeake Bay is a very calm, pleasant sheet of water, which may have its storms sometimes; but, sheltered from the full force of the ocean by what is called the eastern shore, has no terrors after passing the Atlantic.
On my return to the inn, I found Mr. Wheatley waiting for me, and told him what I had done.
Ich sah in ihnen nur die Henker meines Vaters und meines Bruders; darum sammelte ich einige gleichgesinnte junge Leute meiner Bekanntschaft und schloß mich jenen tapferen Mamelucken an, die so oft der Schrecken des französischen Heeres wurden.
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