Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ...hailed it as a pleasant opportunity of breaking the tedium of their passage. They steered for her course; both were lying upon the same tack, but the strange vessel seemed to be falling back upon them; gradually they floated nearer to each other, and eventually they approached so close together that they might have interchanged enquiries, and learned the circumstances of the several vessels from each deck. The sailors with whom Karpha was a captive, were more free to visit than those in the other ship. They lowered their boat; the chief officer with two of the men, accompanied by Karpha, descended and rowed toward the vessel--now discovered to be the Rodeur which had been at Benin while they were supplying their cargo of victims. Here a scene of wretchedness and unparalleled misery was exhibited, which only those accustomed to the horrors of the middle passage could look upon with composure. Excepting only one of the sailors, the whole crew--even the captain and the surgeon, were affected by opthalmia, and they were alarmed with the apprehension that, should he be stricken with the disease, they could no longer hope ever to reach the shore. The sailors of the Rodeur had witnessed the fearful situation of another crew, every one of whom had lost his eyes from a similar cause, in the same vile and iniquitous traffic: they had been obliged to abandon the direction of their course, and, though with pitiful emotion they had presented their sightless eye balls, had appealed in vain to the traders' cupidity, by pointing to the captive and manacled slaves. The mariners of the passing ship could neither spare any one to their assistance or make room for them on board their own vessel. Their consternation was aggravated when every moment they heard the murmers and mo...
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