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( 106 ) on an iron spike, and tearing it through the flesh,) and death I desire, that I may rejoin my wife and children, who have, ere this, a habitation prepared for me in the land of our forefathers, where no cruel white man is permitted to enter." Even the proud apathy of the Portuguese, was roused by this appeal to their feelings; the slave was pardoned and granted his freedom; Senor D. severely fined, and the unworthy magistrate, who seconded his villanyvillainy [sic], degraded from his office. I trust this digression will plead its own excuse, and shall conclude it with the hope, that the time is not far distant,

The new negroes have an idea, that their priests can render them rable