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Indeed, proofs were too strong to admit of denial ; 

 among others, a copy of the following song was 

 found upon the King, which the overseer had heard 

 him sing at the funeral feast, while the other negroes 

 joined in the chorus : — 



SONG OF THE KING OF THE EBOES. 



Oh me good friend, Mr. Wilberforce, make we free ! 

 God Almighty thank ye ! God Almighty thank ye ! 



God Almighty, make we free ! 

 Buckra in this country no make we free : 

 What Negro for to do? What Negro for to do ? 



Take force by force ! Take force by force ! 



CHORUS. 



To be sure ! to be sure ! to be sure ! 



The Eboe King said, that he certainly had made 

 use of this song, and what harm was there in his 

 doing so ? He had sung no songs but such as his 

 brown priest had assured him were approved of by 

 John the Baptist. " And who, then, was John 

 the Baptist?" He did not very well know; only 

 he had been told by his brown priest, that John 

 the Baptist was a friend to the negroes, and had 

 got his head in a pan ! 



As to the Captain, he only said in his defence, 

 that if the court would forgive him this once, he 

 would not do so again, " as he found the whites 

 did not like their plans which, it seems, till that 

 moment they had never suspected ! They had all 

 along imagined, no doubt, that the whites would 



