. Recollections of a sea wanderer's life; an autobiography of an old-time seaman who has sailed in almost every capacity before and abaft the mast, in nearly every quarter of the globe, and under the flags of four of the principal maritime nations. ed them between the shoulderswith the name of the ship. Fifty at a time were huddledthen into a large boat, or lighter, owned by the people onshore, and, being alongside, were hurried on deck, andfinally below. The men were put in the main hold, thewomen in the cabin, and the boys in the focastle. Officersand crew lived on the homeward passage on de
. Recollections of a sea wanderer's life; an autobiography of an old-time seaman who has sailed in almost every capacity before and abaft the mast, in nearly every quarter of the globe, and under the flags of four of the principal maritime nations. ed them between the shoulderswith the name of the ship. Fifty at a time were huddledthen into a large boat, or lighter, owned by the people onshore, and, being alongside, were hurried on deck, andfinally below. The men were put in the main hold, thewomen in the cabin, and the boys in the focastle. Officersand crew lived on the homeward passage on deck. After lying ten days at our anchorage off Ambriz, whichis at the mouth of a river of the same name, and havingfilled up with our cargo of live stock, with a supply of waterand provisions on board, we hove up, made all sail, andstood out to sea with our living cargo of 1,150 black-birds. The wind being about S. S. W. we laid our course going l8o ISLE OF PINES. two points free, but were hardly out of sight of the coastwhen to us the exciting cry was heard Sail, ho, on theweather bow. She was about two points forward of thebeam, and was going free, and to all appearance was a Brit-ish cruiser But she gave us no trouble, for, being no match. SLAVE-SHIP ARRANGED FOR LIVE CARGO. for us in point of sailing, before the sun went down she wasnowhere to be seen even from the togallant mast-head, and,while we rejoiced over our escape, doubtless our enemieswere regretting their loss of prize- money, for Sweet is revenge, especially to women ;Pillage to soldiers, prize-money to seamen. After a swift passage of twenty days, we came to safe and ON A SLAVER. 151 sound within a cables length of the shore of the Isle ofPines on the south coast of the Island of Cuba. I must here state that during the passage the hatcheswere opened every morning and a detail of half a dozennegroes were released and made to clean up the filth, thensupply the rest with food and water. The women were at-tended to
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