OHAPTER VII.

I witness the embarkation of slaves collected at the barracoons,
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 news.

—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 making desperate efforts
to get her off, she escapes, to my bitter disappointment,

from the man-of-war’s boats, along the coast.

FOUND myself once more exposed to the

pestilential air of an African river. Jin

 

vain tried to sleep. All night long I
heard the sound of the carpenters at work fitting
the slave decks, and fixing the bars across them,
to which the captive negroes were to be secured.
The crew were employed most of their time in
hoisting water casks, and a further supply of

farinha, on board.
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