Daniel Saunders worked his passage to England, was picked up by a press-gang, escaped, and so returned to Salem.

It was the fate of Juba Hill, the black cook from Boston, to be detained among the Arabs as a slave.

It is worth noting that a black sea-cook figured in many of these tales of daring and disaster, and among them was the heroic and amazing figure of one Peter Jackson who belonged in the brig Ceres.

While running down the river from Calcutta she was thrown on her beam ends and Peter, perhaps dumping garbage over the rail, took a header.

Among the things tossed to him as he floated away was a sail-boom on which he was swiftly carried out of sight by the turbid current.