“I an’t a Christian like you, Eliza; my heart’s full of bitterness; I can’t trust in God.

“I always thought that I must obey my master and mistress, or I couldn’t be a Christian.”

I’m a man as much as he is. I’m a better man than he is.

“Yes, Eliza, it’s all misery, misery, misery! My life is bitter as wormwood; the very life is burning out of me. I’m a poor, miserable, forlorn drudge; I shall only drag you down with me, that’s all. What’s the use of our trying to do anything, trying to know anything, trying to be anything? What’s the use of living? I wish I was dead!”

No; there is another use that a man can be put to that is WORSE!

plantation niggers would be singing and whooping like all possessed

Perhaps you laugh too, dear reader; but you know humanity comes out in a variety of strange forms now-a-days, and there is no end to the odd things that humane people will say and do.

These critters ain’t like white folks

one of those wild, grotesque songs common among the negroes

Jim Crow

I’ve trusted him, since then, with everything I have,

You mean honest, as niggers go

gentlemen

“Ha, DonBenito, your black here seems high in your trust; a sort of privy-counsellor, in fact.”

So, Don Benito- padlock and key- significantsymbols, truly.”

The black mounted the step

How unlike arewe made

This poor fellow now, thought the pained American, is the victimof that sad superstition which associates goblins with the desertedbody of man, as ghosts with an abandoned house.

You are part owner of ship and cargo, Ipresume; but not of the slaves, perhaps?” “I am owner of all yousee,” impatiently returned Don Benito, “except the main companyof blacks, who belonged to my late friend, Alexandro Aranda.”

“don’t speak of me; Babo is nothing; what Babo has done was butduty.

“I have tothank those Negroes you see, who, though to your inexperiencedeyes appearing unruly, have, indeed, conducted themselves withless of restlessness than even their owner could have thoughtpossible under such circumstances.”

• “Oh, my God! rather than pass through what I have, with joy Iwould have hailed the most terrible gales; but-“ His coughreturned and with increased violence; this subsiding, withreddened lips and closed eyes he fell heavily against his supporter.

Thus, the Spaniard, regarded in his reserve, seemed as theinvoluntary victim of mental disorde

Sometimes the Negro gave hismaster his arm, or took his handkerchief out of his pocket for him;performing these and similar offices with that affectionate zealwhich transmutes into something filial or fraternal acts inthemselves but menial; and which has gained for the Negro therepute of making the most pleasing body-servant in the world; one,too, whom a master need be on no stiffly superior terms with, butmay treat with familiar trust; less a servant than a devotedcompanion.

less good-naturedqualities of the Negroes

nature make known her own case

The scurvy,together with a fever, had swept off a great part of their number,more especially the Spaniards

Shadows present, foreshadowing deepershadows to come

Everything was muteand calm; everything grey

a Spanish merchantmanof the first class; carrying Negro slaves, amongst other valuablefreight, from one colonial port to another

for her own safety’s sake

uneasiness had he not been a person of a singularly undistrustfulgood nature, not liable, except on extraordinary and repeatedexcitement, and hardly then, to indulge in personal alarms, anyway involving the imputation of malign evil in man.

As Moses said, “Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord” (Exodus 14.13).

That we must rely on God Himself, and our whole dependance must be upon Him

It is good for me that I have been afflicted.

One hour I have been in health, and wealthy, wanting nothing. But the next hour in sickness and wounds, and death, having nothing but sorrow and affliction.

where we received her safe.

Having now received one of our children,

I was not before so much hemmed in with the merciless and cruel heathen, but now as much with pitiful, tender-hearted and compassionate Christians.

There I met with my brother, and my brother-in-law, who asked me, if I knew where his wife was? Poor heart! he had helped to bury her, and knew it not.

I was not willing to run away, but desired to wait God’s time, that I might go home quietly, and without fear.

They would boast much of their victories; saying that in two hours time they had destroyed such a captain and his company at such a place; and boast how many towns they had destroyed, and then scoff, and say they had done them a good turn to send them to Heaven so soon.

They mourned (with their black faces)

I can but stand in admiration to see the wonderful power of God

I can but stand in admiration to see the wonderful power of God in providing for such a vast number of our enemies in the wilderness,

strangely did the Lord provide for them; that I did not see (all the time I was among them) one man, woman, or child, die with hunger.

but the English must stop. God had an over-ruling hand in all those things.

Thus did they scoff at us, as if the English would be a quarter of a year getting ready.

1. Of the fair opportunity lost in the long march, a little after the fort fight, when our English army was so numerous, and in pursuit of the enemy, and so near as to take several and destroy them,

rending us and our lambs to death.

Then I took it of the child, and eat it myself, and savory it was to my taste

I went to see how she did, and she was well, considering her captive condition.

Some of them told me he was dead, and they had killed him; some said he was married again, and that the Governor wished him to marry; and told him he should have his choice, and that all persuaded I was dead. So like were these barbarous creatures to him who was a liar from the beginning.

Then also I took my Bible to read, but I found no comfort here neither, which many times I was wont to find. So easy a thing it is with God to dry up the streams of Scripture comfort from us.

barbarous heathens,

But the Lord upheld my Spirit, under this discouragement; and I considered their horrible addictedness to lying, and that there is not one of them that makes the least conscience of speaking of truth.

I had not seen my son a pretty while, and here was an Indian of whom I made inquiry after him, and asked him when he saw him.

through the good providence of God, I had a comfortable lodging that night.

sannup,

I took my Bible to read, and that quieting Scripture came to my hand, “Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46.10). Which stilled my spirit for the present

I complained it was too heavy, whereupon she gave me a slap in the face, and bade me go;

“Nux

she found me sitting and reading in my Bible; she snatched it hastily out of my hand, and threw it out of doors.

I desired them that they would carry me to Albany upon one of those horses, and sell me for powder: for so they had sometimes discoursed

There was a squaw who spake to me to make a shirt for her sannup, for which she gave me a piece of bear. Another asked me to knit a pair of stockings, for which she gave me a quart of peas

.” There one of them asked me why I wept. I could hardly tell what to say: Yet I answered, they would kill me. “No,” said he, “none will hurt you.” Then came one of them and gave me two spoonfuls of meal to comfort me, and another gave me half a pint of peas; which was more worth than many bushels at another time

“Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return: the Lord gave, the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord

If we had been God would have found out a way for the English to have passed this river, as well as for the Indians with their squaws and children, and all their luggage.

“When thou passeth through the waters I will be with thee, and through the rivers they shall not overflow thee” (Isaiah 43.2)

my mistress to give me one spoonful of the meal, but she would not give me a taste.

We opened the Bible and lighted on Psalm 27, in which Psalm we especially took notice of that, ver. ult., “Wait on the Lord, Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine Heart, wait I say on the Lord.”

I could not bear to be in the room where any dead person was, but now the case is changed; I must and could lie down by my dead babe, side by side all the night after.

that it was easy for me to see how righteous it was with God to cut off the thread of my life and cast me out of His presence forever.

and having no Christian friend near me,

like inhumane creatures, laughed, and rejoiced to see it,

but God was with me in a wonderful manner, carrying me along, and bearing up my spirit, that it did not quite fail

savageness and brutishness of this barbarous enemy

my husband gone (at least separated from me, he being in the Bay; and to add to my grief, the Indians told me they would kill him as he came homeward), my children gone, my relations and friends gone, our house and home and all our comforts—within door and without—all was gone (except my life), and I knew not but the next moment that might go too.

Oh the roaring, and singing and dancing, and yelling of those black creatures in the night, which made the place a lively resemblance of hell.

Now away we must go with those barbarous creatures, with our bodies wounded and bleeding, and our hearts no less than our bodies.

The chief ordered the two women to be taken out and hanged publicly. This the people did. The chief's son took back his wife, and they lived thenceforth in a great house, which was richly ornamented with gold by his wife. He became chief after his father, and his son became chief after him.

When they became alive, each boy showed a luminous spot on the forehead; on the forehead of one shone a sun, and on that of the other a bright moon.

"Because he is lazy. He feeds too much in one place. He is too lazy to search for good nutritious grass, and he is too lazy to go to water regularly. He will stand for days in one place rather than go any distance to get water."

They untied her, and after telling her that her real children were alive, and that things would come well in the end, they transformed her into a goose, and she swam about on the lake. The chief's son did not like his new wife, because she was disgusting and smelled nasty.

This time she gave the woman a snake, telling her that she had given birth to it.

When she was about to give birth, her step-mother made a hole in the floor, placed the young woman over it, and, when the child was born, she cut the navel-string and let the infant fall through the hole. Then she put a cat in its place; and when the mother sat up and asked for her child the step-mother put the cat in her arms. The woman said, "It is strange that I should give birth to a cat!" The step-mother said, "Odd people have odd children."

The chieftainess asked her husband to request his mother to attend her when her time came, as she had no faith in her step-mother, who might use the opportunity to do her harm. Her husband, however, assuaged her misgivings, {p. 234} and insisted that her step-mother, who was an expert midwife, and her half-sister, should assist her.

He picked up the spittle and satisfied himself that it was really gold. Then he advised his son to marry her, saying, " She is a valuable woman, she is worth many."

He liked her looks and her dress. His father, whom he told of his admiration for the girl, encouraged him to visit her and make her acquaintance. He said, "You may change your mind when you see her again."

"What shall we do for our sister?" The youngest man asked her to spit, but she felt insulted at the request. She was vain and haughty. She thought they were fooling her.

Now, the youngest brother told her to spit; and when she spat, the spittle became a nugget of gold.

She put some food in her basket and wandered off, saying to herself, "I will continue wandering around until I die."