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on the head, with a large ftick, calling out to 

 the other, in broad Barbadoes accent, 

 " Daa-am him, cut him down.*' 



A little before they reached the prifon 

 they had to pafs a door-way where there 

 happened to be a ftrong light, by means of 

 which one of thefe cruel inftruments of the 

 law of Jorce inftantly recognifed the poor ill- 

 treated flave, and finding that they were aSu- 

 ally guilty of the miftake which the negro 

 had ftated, he called out to his favage comrade, 

 who had ftruck the helplefs black upon the 

 head, " Daa-am him, I know the fellow, we 

 muft let him go," upon which, they both, 

 with horrid and dreadful imprecations, ordered 

 him to ftand, without Jlirring ,whiletheyfliould 

 untie him ; and, upon his only moving his 

 arm to expedite the loofening of the cord, 

 they fwore, that if he dared " to ftir, or look 

 favage," they would " cut him down," or put 

 him, " diredly into prifon." Such was the 

 compenfition dealt him for the unjuft and 

 cruel treatment he had already received. The 

 wretches not only dragged the poor unoffend- 

 ing flave to a prifon, in defiance of his folemn 

 aiTurances of their having miftaken his perfon^ 



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