10 SAN JOSEF. 



Avith being the cause of their capture, he pacified them by 

 promising that when they should arrive in white man's 

 country, he woukl repay their perfidy by attacking them in 

 the night. He further promised that if the Paupaus and 

 Yarrabas would follow him, he would fight his vray back to 

 Guinea. This account was fully corroborated by many of the 

 mutineers, especially those who were shot with Daaga : they 

 all said the revolt never would have happened but for Donald 

 Stewart, as he was called by the officers ; but Africans who 

 were not of his tribe called him Longa-longa, on account of 

 his height. 



" Such was this extraordinary man, who led the mutiny I 

 am about to relate. 



'' A quantity of captured Africans having been brought 

 hither from the islands of Grenada and Dominica, they were 

 most imprudently induced to enlist as recruits in the 1st West 

 India Eegiment. True it is, we have been told they did this 

 voluntarily : but, it may be asked, if they had any will in the 

 matter, how could they understand the duties to be imposed 

 on them by becoming soldiers, or how comprehend the nature 

 of an oath of allegiance? without which they could not, 

 legally speaking, be considered as soldiers. I attended the 

 whole of the trials of these men, and well know how difficult 

 it was to make them comprehend any idea which was at 

 all new to them by means of the best interpreters procurable, 



