as ghastly: His
Discourse was sad; and the earthy Smell about him so strong, that I was
persuaded to leave the Place for some time, (being my self but sickly,
and very apt to fall into Fits of dangerous Illness upon any
extraordinary Melancholy.) The Servants, and _Trefry_, and the
Chirurgeons, promis'd all to take what possible Care they could of the
Life of _Caesar_; and I, taking Boat, went with other Company to Colonel
_Martin's_, about three Days Journey down the River. But I was no sooner
gone, than the Governor taking _Trefry_, about some pretended earnest
Business, a Day's Journey up the River, having communicated his Design
to one _Banister_, a wild _Irish_ Man, one of the Council, a Fellow of
absolute Barbarity, and fit to execute any Villany, but rich; he came up
to _Parham_, and forcibly took _Caesar_, and had him carried to the same
Post where he was whipp'd; and causing him to be ty'd to it, and a great
Fire made before him, he told him he should die like a Dog, as he was.
_Caesar_ replied, This was the first piece of Bravery that ever
_Banister_ did, and he never spoke Sense till he pronounc'd that Word;
and if he would keep it, he would declare, in the other World, that he
was the only Man, of all the _Whites_, that ever he heard speak Truth.
And turning to the Men that had bound him, he said, _My Friends, am I to
die, or to be whipt?_ And they cry'd, _Whipt! no, you shall not escape
so well._ And then he reply'd, smiling, _A Blessing on thee_; and
assur'd them they need not tie him, for he would stand fix'd like a
Rock, and endure Death so as should encourage them to die: _But if you
whip me_ (said he) _be sure you tie me fast_.

He had learn'd to take Tobacco; and when he was assur'd he should die,
he desir'd they would give him a Pipe in his Mouth, ready lighted; which
they did: And the Executioner came, and first cut off his Members, and
threw them into the Fire; after that, with an ill-favour'd Knife, they
cut off his Ears and his Nose, and burn'd them; he still smoak'd on, as
if nothing had touch'd him; then they hack'd off one of his Arms, and
still he bore up and held his Pipe; but at the cutting off the other
Arm, his Head sunk, and his Pipe dropt, and he gave up the Ghost,
without a Groan, or a Reproach. My Mother and Sister were by him all the
While, but not suffer'd to save him; so rude and wild were the Rabble,
and so inhuman were the Justices who stood by to see the Execution, who
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