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though his desire to see all his fellow-creatures as free as himself may be more ardent and firmly seated than that of the most laborious and enthusiastic among them ; I know that such a man would be shuddered at as a savage creature , and shunned and stigmatized as a scoffing infidel . Still I abhor the traffic , and
the principle from my very soul . * ' I do not say you are wrong / said B . c But they'll hang me if I am caught / < He'll never be caught ;* and if you should fall in with an English cruiser on your passage , y ou are safe ; she has discharged her cargo , and goes to San Juan for stores , and to refit for another voyage . ' 'f (
But , ' said I , what sort of a being is this Captain Jose ? ' Do you expect to see a thing with horns and a cloven foot , ' replied B ., laughing . ' You may think his trade cruel and infamous ; so , to your mode of looking at the question , it is ; but he is not all devil : perhaps it is his misfortune to have been so trained and habituated , that he thinks it neither dishonourable , nor unchristian , to
be employed in the traffic of human flesh : his success too has made him bold ; but he has much in him which you will like . ' ' Then I must forget the slave captain , Monsieur B ., which will require a dip in Lethe . ' * " Many do forget that , when in his society , though there are also many here to whom it is his fairest recommendation . I tell you , you will like him ; and it is the
safest and best means of effecting your return to San Juan , though I am selfish enough to wish to detain you here for a time . ' I thanked B . for his kindness and solicitude ; and though I felt considerable repugnance to such a conveyance , accepted Captain Jose ' s offer . ' But come , if you are disposed to see what display of beauty Mayaguez can make , let us go to the Toro ;
where , indeed , you will not witness a bull-fight , for a troop of equestrians occupy it at present , and elicit the wonder and applause of these secluded people . ' To the circus we repaired ; where , with no other roof than the clear and cloudless sky , all whom age or sickness did not detain at home , were assembled to witness the feats of horsemanship , and tricks of the clown .
Spanish gravity ! there was none of it here : they were tumultuous in their plaudits , and their shouts and screams of laughter at Mr . Merryman ' s tricks and jokes made the welkin ring , " iet there was no symptom of rudeness or coarseness in their mirthit was the outpouring of overcharged excitement in beings unacof
customed to such amusements , and therefore more susceptible excitement from them . And indeed there was beauty : bareheaded , except in the covering of the veritable Spanish veil , which , wherever Spanish ladies are to be found , is the transp lantation of the graceful and beautifying head-geer of the old mother country . To me horsemen and clown were no objects of attrac-* Caught , however , he wat , in 1822 ; but not until after a most deHnerate resistance , in wiiich more than half hn crew were killed , a ad he stretched , without sign of life , on the deck .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1834, page 668, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2637/page/64/
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