Satanstoe

Chapter 20

"Come, let a proper text be read,

An' touch it aff wi' vigour,

How graceless Ham leugh at his dad,

Which made Canaan a nigger."

BURNS.

Ten days after the departure of the ----th, Herman Mordaunt and his

family, with our own party, left Albany, on the summer's business. In that

interval, however, great changes had taken place in the military aspect of

things. Several regiments of King's troops ascended the Hudson, most of the

sloops on the river, of which there could not have been fewer than thirty

or forty, having been employed in transporting them and their stores. Two

or three corps came across the country, from the eastern colonies,

while several provincial regiments appeared; everything tending to a

concentration at this point, the head of navigation on the Hudson. Among