Here was a fine opportunity, a miraculous opportunity, of disposing of the Bonnet estate, which was part of the business which had brought him here.

So he told the beaming captain that he knew of a fine plantation up the river, which he thought would suit him.
"Very good," said Captain Ichabod.

"I have a boat here; let us go and look at the place, and if it suits us I will buy it, bedad." So with Mrs.Mander and her husband beside her, and with Lucilla and the captain by her, the boat was rowed up the river, with Dickory and young Lena in the bow.
When the boat reached the Bonnet estate it was run up on the shore near the shady spot where Kate Bonnet had once caught a fish.

Then they all stepped out upon the little beach, even the oarsmen made the boat fast and joined the party, who started to walk up to the house.

Suddenly Captain Ichabod stopped and said to Mr.Mander: "I don't think I care to walk up that hill, you know; and if you and your good wife will look over that house and cast your eyes about the place, I will buy it, if you say so: you know a good deal more about such things than I do, bedad.