Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

Charlestown, South Carolina July 15, 1732. On the 29th, a white Servant Man belonging to Mr. Robert Cinclair wilfully drowned himself in Black River, he had been in the Province but a few weeks, and it is imagined that his being put to work, which was what, it seems, he had not been used to, induced him to dispatch himself. He was found next day floating on the River, with half a Score Alligators about him, that had made no Scruple of working upon the Poor Fellow’s Carcass pretty Sufficiently.