This, in itself, was enough to stagger us; but when we came to survey the untrodden road, and conjecture the many possible difficulties, we were appalled, and at times, as I have said, were upon the point of giving over the struggle altogether.
The reader can have little idea of the phantoms of trouble which flit, in such circumstances, before the uneducated mind of the slave.

Upon either side, we saw grim death assuming a variety of horrid shapes.

Now, it was starvation, causing us, in a strange and friendless land, to eat our own flesh.

Now, we were contending with the waves (for our journey was in part by water) and were drowned.

Now, we were hunted by dogs, and overtaken and torn to pieces by their merciless fangs.