CHAPTER XXVIII.
DESPERATION OF A FUGITIVE SLAVE.
We had as yet received no funds from our foreign agent, N.Paul, and the board of managers had resolved to send a man after him.

An Englishman and a white man named Nell, would gladly undertake the mission, leaving his wife and five children among the settlers.

Again was I under the necessity of returning to New York, to obtain the funds required to send out Mr.
Nell after our agent in England.
The night before I left home, I had a singular dream which I will briefly relate.

I dreamed of journeying on a boat to Albany, and of stopping at a house to take tea.

Several persons, I thought, were at the table, and as a cup of tea was handed me, I saw a woman slyly drop something into it.