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Baum, L Frank Oz 06 The Emerald City of Oz
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James Alan Gardner [League Of Peoples 06] Trapped
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upon his master, Don Alexandro, and who speaks well the Spanish, having served him four
or five years;... a mulatto, named Francesco, the cabin steward, of a good person and voice,
having sung in the Valparaiso churches, native of the province of Buenos Ayres, aged
about thirty-five years.... A smart Negro, named Dago, who had been for many years a
gravedigger among the Spaniards, aged forty-six years.... Four old Negroes, born in Africa,
from sixty to seventy, but sound, caulkers by trade, whose names are as follows:- the first
was named Muri, and he was killed (as was also his son named Diamelo); the second,
Nacta; the third, Yola, likewise killed; the fourth, Ghofan; and six full-grown Negroes,
aged from thirty to forty-five, all raw, and born among the Ashantees- Martinqui, Yan,
Lecbe, Mapenda, Yambaio, Akim; four of whom were killed;... a powerful Negro named
Atufal, who, being supposed to have been a chief in Africa, his owners set great store by
him.... And a small Negro of Senegal, but some years among the Spaniards, aged about
thirty, which Negro's name was Babo;... that he does not remember the names of the others,
but that still expecting the residue of Don Alexandro's papers will be found, will then take
due account of them all, and remit to the court;... and thirty-nine women and children of all
ages.
[After the catalogue, the deposition goes on as follows:]
...That all the Negroes slept upon deck, as is customary in this navigation, and none wore
fetters, because the owner, his friend Aranda, told him that they were all tractable;... that on
the seventh day after leaving port, at three o'clock in the morning, all the Spaniards being
asleep except the two officers on the watch, who were the boatswain, Juan Robles, and the
carpenter, Juan Bautista Gayete, and the helmsman and his boy, the Negroes revolted
suddenly, wounded dangerously the boatswain and the carpenter, and successively killed
eighteen men of those who were sleeping upon deck, some with handspikes and hatchets,
and others by throwing them alive overboard, after tying them; that of the Spaniards upon
deck, they left about seven, as he thinks, alive and tied, to manoeuvre the ship, and three or
four more who hid themselves remained also alive. Although in the act of revolt the
Negroes made themselves masters of the hatchway, six or seven wounded went through it
to the cockpit, without any hindrance on their part; that in the act of revolt, the mate and
another person, whose name he does not recollect, attempted to come up through the
hatchway, but having been wounded at the onset, they were obliged to return to the cabin;
that the deponent resolved at break of day to come up the companionway, where the Negro
Babo was, being the ringleader, and Atufal, who assisted him, and having spoken to them,
exhorted them to cease committing such atrocities, asking them, at the same time, what
they wanted and intended to do, offering, himself, to obey their commands; that,
notwithstanding this, they threw, in his presence, three men, alive and tied, overboard; that
they told the deponent to come up, and that they would not kill him; which having done,
the Negro Babo asked him whether there were in those seas any Negro countries where
they might be carried, and he answered them, No, that the Negro Babo afterwards told him
to carry them to Senegal, or to the neighbouring islands of St. Nicholas; and he answered,
that this was impossible, on account of the great distance, the necessity involved of
rounding Cape Horn, the bad condition of the vessel, the want of provisions, sails, and
water; but that the Negro Babo replied to him he must carry them in any way; that they
would do and conform themselves to everything the deponent should require as to eating
and drinking; that after a long conference, being absolutely compelled to please them, for
they threatened him to kill all the whites if they were not, at all events, carried to Senegal,
he told them that what was most wanting for the voyage was water; that they would go near
the coast to take it, and hence they would proceed on their course; that the Negro Babo
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agreed to it; and the deponent steered toward the intermediate ports, hoping to meet some
Spanish or foreign vessel that would save them; that within ten or eleven days they saw the
land, and continued their course by it in the vicinity of Nasca; that the deponent observed
that the Negroes were now restless and mutinous, because he did not effect the taking in of
water, the Negro Babo having required, with threats, that it should be done, without fail,
the following day; he told him he saw plainly that the coast was steep, and the rivers
designated in the maps were not be found, with other reasons suitable to the circumstances;
that the best way would be to go to the island of Santa Maria, where they might water and
victual easily, it being a desert island, as the foreigners did; that the deponent did not go to
Pisco, that was near, nor make any other port of the coast, because the Negro Babo had
intimated to him several times, that he would kill all the whites the very moment he should
perceive any city, town, or settlement of any kind on the shores to which they should be
carried; that having determined to go to the island of Santa Maria, as the deponent had
planned, for the purpose of trying whether, in the passage or in the island itself, they could
find any vessel that should favour them, or whether he could escape from it in a boat to the
neighbouring coast of Arruco; to adopt the necessary means he immediately changed his
course, steering for the island; that the Negroes Babo and Atufal held daily conferences, in
which they discussed what was necessary for their design of returning to Senegal, whether
they were to kill all the Spaniards, and particularly the deponent; that eight days after
parting from the coast of Nasca, the deponent being on the watch a little after day-break,
and soon after the Negroes had their meeting, the Negro Babo came to the place where the
deponent was, and told him that he had determined to kill his master, Don Alexandro
Aranda, both because he and his companions could not otherwise be sure of their liberty,
and that, to keep the seamen in subjection, he wanted to prepare a warning of what road
they should be made to take did they or any of them oppose him; and that, by means of the
death of Don Alexandro, that warning would best be given; but, that what this last meant,
the deponent did not at the time comprehend, nor could not, further than that the death of
Don Alexandro was intended; and moreover, the Negro Babo proposed to the deponent to [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
