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same value. How similar to the treatment 
of some slaves in this country, and by white 
men. 
In evidence of this, we will give the 
treatment which a cargo of slaves taken 
on board in that country, and landed at the 
West Indies, received at the hands of white 
men, and a white captain. We have this 
from the captain's own lips. In two hours 
eight hundred slaves were put into the 
vessel. In his own words tumbled into 
the hold like sacks of grain." On the 
passage three hundred died, She only at- 
tention paid to the sick was to remove the 
dead from among them every morning,— 
some mornings thirty were thrown over- 
board, — so great was the stench coming 
from the hold when the hatches were opened 
that none could endure it long, — perhaps 
none but crews of slave vessels would have 
endured it at all. On the passage a man 
was kept at the top of the mainmast all the 
time to lookout for cruisers and other vessels, 
so as to avoid detection. The vessel came 
near being taken by a man of- war on the 
American coast, and was kept from taking 
