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CHAPTER VI.

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A calm comes on, and we remain during the night suffering

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from hunger and thirst.—Paul tells me his history, and I
find that he is Cheebo, of whom I am in search.—His
joy at hearing of his mother makes him regardless of the
sufferings we are enduring.—The schooner picks us up.
—Paul suspects her character.—Before long we discover
that she is a slaver, and she runs up a river to receive

her cargo on board, « : .

CHAPTER VII.

witness the embarkation of slaves collected at the barra-
coons, and the cruel way in which they are treated and
packed in the hold of the slaver.—Unwilling to desert
Paul, I remain on board, and the slaver puts to sea.—
Paul is threatened for attempting to comfort the slaves
with the Gospel nows.—The schooner receives more
slaves on board along the coast—Some are drowned
coming off —The slaver gets on shore just as a man-of-
war is seen in the offing —A fog comes on, and the
schooner’s crew make desperate efforts to get her off.—
She escapes, to my bitter disappointment, from the man-

of-war’s boats, along the coast, « ; .

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