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 on the foremost, cleft him to the ground. sabres of his adversaries clashed over his head, he heeded not death, and struggled hard to  the chains that encircled him. HoHe [sic] still, and his blood streamed around, till at length , he fell covered with wounds, and four of adversaries lay dead beside him; the others  up his wounds, and sent him with the rest  his party to the slave merchants.

Four hundred slaves were offered by Daisy for release, but the offer was rejected; and  the bank of the Gambia, they were sold to an  Captain bound for Jamaica.—On their  they experienced all those horrors peculiar  confinement in a slave ship.

On their arrival, Mansong, whom we shall in call Jack, that being the name given him on  arrival at Jamaica, with his fellow slaves, were  of according to lot. He was then branded the breast, and he smiled upon thothe [sic] red hot iron  it seared him; but he had vowed revenge, and  upon the God of his country to witness his  of vengeance on the European race. He had received the lash of his employers on his bare ; and as the blood trickled down his back,  did he resolve that for every drop, a white man's  should sprinkle the plain!

Eighteen long tedious months had passed since was dragged from his native country, from his, and from his betrothed bride, the beautiful —eighteen long tedious months had heard  groans; and Jack devised how to lash his  with a rod of iron.

At this period the island of Jamaica was greatly with the professors of Obi, which caused  most dangerous and fatal consequences among