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tion in the faces of those more advanced in years. One woman, 

 who spoke a little English, begged me to carry her home. 

 She said she was from the opposite shore of the river to 

 Freetown,^ that her husband had sold her for debt, and that 

 she had left a child behind her. At the mention of the child 

 she wept." 



*' I was this morning on board a slave ship, where I saw 

 a woman who had been newly sold, and who seemed to have 

 been weeping. On asking her the reason, she pointed to the 

 milk flowing from her breasts, and intimated that she had 

 been torn from her unweaned infant, which the captain confirmed. 

 She was from one of the towns nearest us, and said she had 

 been sold for being saucy to the queen of it." 



" In the neighbouring slave yard I saw a man about thirty- 

 five years old in irons. He was a Muhammadan, and could 

 read Arabic. He was occasionally noisy ; sometimes he would 

 sing a melancholy song, then he would utter an earnest prayer, 

 and then he would observe a dead silence. This strange conduct, 

 I was told, was from his strong feelings, on having been put, 

 for the first time, in irons the day before. As we passed, 

 he cried aloud to us, and endeavoured to hold up his irons 

 to our view, which he struck very expressively with his hand, 

 the tear starting in his eye. He seemed, by his manner, to 

 be demanding the cause of his confinement." 



" An American slave captain has been telling us that he 

 lost a very fine slave a few days ago by the sulks. ' The man,' 

 said he, ' was a Muhammadan, uncommonly well made, and 

 seemed to be a person of consequence. When he first came 

 on board he was very much cast down, but, finding that I 

 allowed him to walk at large, he grew more easy. When my 



1 Freetown was established in 1792. It is the capital of the Sierra Leone 

 Colony. 



