HISTORY OF A SLAVE. 
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Captain Trotter gave the very appropriate names 
of Hannah Buxton and Elizabeth Fry to the two 
women, while the man was called Albert Gori, — after 
His Royal Highness, the consort of our beloved Queen, 
and Patron of the Society for the Civilization of 
Africa ; — and as commemorative of the place where he 
threw oif the chains of human bondage. 
Shortly after dark the sorrows and troubles of the 
women were for awhile drowned in deep sleep. I 
saw them lying under the awning closely locked in 
each other’s arms. 
In the course of a day or two they became less 
timid, and an Aku boy (my servant, who had also 
been with me in H.M.S. ‘Scout,’) soon became a 
favourite with them both. They told him they made 
certain, when they came first on board, that we were 
about to kill them, for we “ looked so strong.” A sad 
illustration of the state of society in this unhappy 
country, where power cannot be regarded otherwise 
than as a means of oppression. 
It appeared that the older of the two had become 
an object of jealousy to her husband, and that he in 
consequence sold her to a slave-dealer who at the 
time happened to be trading in their country. She 
said that before she saw the water (Niger) the slave- 
gang to which she belonged travelled wearily every day 
for nearly a month. They were some days on the 
water before they reached Egga ; and during the pas- 
sage parties of her unhappy companions were from 
