Being so near the color of a slaveholder, they could not, or did not find me out that night among the white passengers.

There was one of the deck hands on board called out on his watch, whose hammock was swinging up near by me.

I asked him if he would let me lie in it.

He said if I would pay him twenty-five cents that I might lie in it until day.

I readily paid him the price and got into the hammock.