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(1789) [MARC] Author: Matthew Consett
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96 A TOUR THROUGH

£ oe Eee 2 KV
Uma, Fune 29.

We. ordered horfes at four in the morning of the

28th, promifing ourfelves fome repaft upon the
road, but no refrefhment of any kind could be obtained:
till we arrived at Sunnana about four in the afternoon.
The Poverty of the country is beyond any thing you can
conceive. We flept the fame night at Burea the refidence
of dirt and famine, but quitted it as expeditioufly as
pofible.

On Thurfday the 2gth. we breakfafted at Gumboda
another feat of mifery and want. Sir H. G. L.’s liberality
of three Rix Dollars was here moft humanely applied and

gratefully received by a poor indigent Boor, who had
reared a family of feven children with hardly any other.
fubfiftence than the Bark of the fir-tree. The fight of

fuch a fum, and the poffeffion of it alfo, almoft overcame
the

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