"But throughout these calamities," huskily continued Don Benito,painfully turning in the half embrace of his servant, "I have to thankthose n*****s you see, who, though to your inexperienced eyes appearingunruly, have, indeed, conducted themselves with less of restlessnessthan even their owner could have thought possible under suchcircumstances."
Here he again fell faintly back. Again his mind wandered; but herallied, and less obscurely proceeded.
"Yes, their owner was quite right in assuring me that no fetters wouldbe needed with his blacks; so that while, as is wont in thistransportation, those n*****s have always remained upon deck—not thrustbelow, as in the Guinea-men—they have, also, from the beginning, beenfreely permitted to range within given bounds at their pleasure."
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