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right to take away his life : The Mafter told 

 him, that he muft furrender himfelf, and be tried 

 by the Civil Magiftrate -, whereupon, he ftruck 

 at him with the Knife, but was knocked down 

 and fecured. The next day he was tried by two 

 Juffices of the Peace, who have a difcretionary 

 Power, to inflid: what Death they pleafe upon 

 fuch Negroes : The Juftices adjudged him to be 

 broke upon the Wheel, and then burnt alive, 

 which Sentence was ftri(5tly put in execution : 

 When his Arms, Thighs, and Leg Bones, were 

 broken all to lliivers, with an Iron Crow, he 

 did not fo much as once cry out Oh ! He then 

 defired a Dram of Rum, which was refufed him 

 by his Mailer, who rightly imagined, that he 

 only wanted (if poffible) to die drunk ^ however, 

 a Draught of Water was offered him, which he 

 refufed to accept of 5 they then flung him into a 

 large and fierce Fire, where he expired, with 

 little or no concern. This relation, puts me in 

 m.ind of 0?'go?wM^ tragical Death, at Surinam y 

 told by Mrs. Ann Behn^ in one of her Novels, 

 that bears his Name, and whofe Hiftory is Truth 

 embeiliflied with fome fabulous Circumftances, 

 But pray, what did our Countryman the Captain 

 defer ve? 



5. Some Negroes believe, That when they ^ 

 die, they return back to their own Native Coun|^., 

 try ) for which reafon, they often hang them- . 



felves 



