Africa. Many of the negroes being detained 

 on board for a confiderable time while the 

 cargo was completing, and lying, during this 

 period, within fight of their native fhorcs from 

 which, and, perhaps, from their wives and 

 families, they were about to be torn for ever, 

 had grown indignant even to defperation, and 

 rifing upon the fhip's company, murdered the 

 mafter and mate, who then belonged to the 

 vefTel, and wounded feveral of the men*: nor 

 was it until after a very fevere and bloody 

 conteft that they were overcome; when the 

 ring-leaders were put to death, as an example 

 to deter others from again revoking. One 

 of the failors fliewed us three defperate wounds 

 wliich he had received on the face, the breaft, 

 and the arm, from the ftroke of an axe, with 

 which one of the blacks had, juft before^ 

 flruck off the captain's head. 



The next day, after our vifit to the 

 American flave- (hip, an opportunity offered of 

 feeing one of our own nation— a Liverpool 

 Guinea-man— a fhipof much greater burden, 

 fitted out exprefsly for the trade, with a fuffi- 

 pient jiumber of hands and of guns on board 



