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them threw me down, and carried me along for many yards. 

 . . . On our return we stripped in his den, rubbed with rough 

 towels, and put on our clothes. He was much surprised that 

 I would not take any whisky ; but I took no harm from this or 

 any other wetting. He then showed me the most lovely little 

 Medusae under his microscope. Among them was one which 

 only one or two others had seen, and which he was glad for 

 me to verify : he calls it the nursing Medusa, for it harbours 

 the larvae of another species." 



Philip stopped at Sullivan's Island, the watering-place of 

 Charleston. He preferred to stay at a boarding-house \ but 

 visited some naturalists, among them Dr. Ravenel,* the 

 Governor of the island. He had scruples in accepting their 

 hospitality, but he made no secret of his Anti-slavery prin- 

 ciples. He found that, as an Englishman, he was expected to 

 be opposed to slavery. He was pleased with the courtesy and 

 refinement he witnessed, which reminded him of good society 

 in England; but he took care to see the other side of the 

 picture'. 



While he noticed that some of the coloured people seemed 

 much more at home than in the North, where they appeared 

 to feel as interlopers, there was a general servility which pained 

 him. He made acquaintance with some slaves, who saw that 

 they could trust him, and heard their view of the " patriarchal 

 institution." While he was so kindly received, he knew that 

 any coloured British subject, on entering the State, would be 

 imprisoned ; indeed, only a short time before, the sheriff took 

 British seamen from under the British flag, and put them in 

 prison while the ship was in port. If the gaol-fees were not 

 paid, they were in some cases sold as slaves. f He could not 

 feel happy in the head-quarters of slavery, and in three or four 



* In his manifold are copies of letters to Dr. Ravenel and Professor 

 McCrady, written from Warrington, November, i860, announcing collections 

 of shells he had forwarded for them, and thanking Dr. Ravenel for a 

 box he had been kind enough to send him ; also to Professor Gibbs, to 

 whom he sent a collection of British flowers from his sister Anna. 



t In 1852, forty-two British seamen were thus imprisoned. See "Im- 

 prisonment and Enslavement of British Coloured Seamen," Leeds Anti- 

 slavery Series, No. 89 (by R. L. Carpenter). 



