"has travelled a considerable way.

He lived at a great distance from hence, and had a large family, for whom he was daily to provide.

As he went out one night to a neighbouring spring, to procure water for his thirsty children, he was kidnapped by two _slave hunters_, who sold him in the morning to some country merchants for a _bar of iron_.

These drove him with other slaves, procured almost in the same manner, to the nearest market, where the English merchants, to whom the train that has just now passed us belongs, purchased him and two others, by means of their travelling agents, for a _pistol_.

His wife and children have been long waiting for his return.