Only I warn you, watch him well or you will find a stiletto in your back.' The officer laughed and said: 'Our friend will scarcely get a chance at me, for I do not go a hundred paces underground, where he will find his quarters.

And now, Englishman, there is room for you below I think;' and he called to a sailor bidding him bring the irons of the man who had died.
This was done, and after I had been searched and a small sum in gold that I had upon my person taken from me--it was all that remained to me of my possessions--fetters were placed upon my ankles and round my neck, and I was dragged into the hold.

Before I reached it I knew from various signs what was the cargo of this ship.

She was laden with slaves captured in Fernandina, as the Spaniards name the island of Cuba, that were to be sold in Hispaniola.

Among these slaves I was now numbered.
How to tell the horrors of that hold I know not.