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ik schreef thans aan mijn vriend in lissabon over den verkoop mijner plantaadje, en op zijn raad bood ik die aan de zoons van mijne gemagtigden te koop aan.

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and now, having resolved to dispose of my plantation in the brazils, i wrote to my old friend at lisbon, who, having offered it to the two merchants, the survivors of my trustees, who lived in the brazils, they accepted the offer, and remitted thirty-three thousand pieces of eight to a correspondent of theirs at lisbon to pay for it.

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nimmer handelde men eerlijker dan bij het ontvangen van deze procuratie, want binnen zeven maanden ontving ik een groot pakket van de overgeblevenen mijner gemagtigden, de kooplieden, voor wier rekening ik naar zee was gegaan.

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never was anything more honourable than the proceedings upon this procuration; for in less than seven months i received a large packet from the survivors of my trustees, the merchants, for whose account i went to sea, in which were the following, particular letters and papers enclosed:—

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daarop schreef ik een dankbaren brief aan mijne twee gemagtigden, met al de erkentelijkheid, die hunne braafheid en eerlijkheid verdienden; hun eenig geschenk te zenden, ware water in de zee dragen geweest.

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i wrote next a letter of thanks to my two trustees, with all the acknowledgment that so much justice and honesty called for: as for sending them any present, they were far above having any occasion of it.

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"maar," zeide de oude man, "ik heb u ander nieuws te vertellen, dat u misschien minder aangenaam zal zijn dan het overige; dat is, dat daar iedereen u verongelukt waande, uw compagnon en gemagtigden mij in uwen naam de verrekening aanboden van de opbrengsten van de zes of acht eerste jaren, die ik ontving; doch daar er tweemaal groote verbeteringen gemaakt werden, als het bouwen van een suikermolen, het aankoopen van slaven enz., waren die opbrengsten zoo groot niet als de volgende. echter," vervolgde de oude man, "zal ik u eene behoorlijke rekening geven van al wat ik ontvangen, en hoe ik er mede gehandeld heb."

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“but,” says the old man, “i have one piece of news to tell you, which perhaps may not be so acceptable to you as the rest; and that is, believing you were lost, and all the world believing so also, your partner and trustees did offer to account with me, in your name, for the first six or eight years’ profits, which i received. there being at that time great disbursements for increasing the works, building an ingenio, and buying slaves, it did not amount to near so much as afterwards it produced; however,” says the old man, “i shall give you a true account of what i have received in all, and how i have disposed of it.”

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