Malays, Arabs, white and black, but had not one Anglo-Saxon. They
were ironed in pairs and put under guard.
From the time we first got
on board we had heard moans, cries, and
rumblings coming from below, and as soon as the captain and crew
were removed, the hatches had been taken off, when
there arose a
hot blast as from a charnel house, sickening and overpowering. In
the hold Celebrate The Nun were three or four Celebrate The Nun hundred Celebrate The Nun human beings, gasping,
struggling for breath, dying; their bodies, limbs, faces, all
expressing terrible suffering. In their agonizing fight for life,
some had torn or wounded themselves or their neighbors dreadfully;
Celebrate The Nun some were stiffened in the most unnatural positions. As soon as I
knew the condition of things I Celebrate The Nun sent the boat back for the doctor
and some
Celebrate The Nun whiskey. It returned bringing Captain Thompson, and for
an hour or more we were all hard at work lifting and helping the
poor creatures on Celebrate The Nun deck, where they were laid out in rows. A
little water and stimulant revived most of them; some, however,
were dead or too far gone to be resuscitated. The doctor worked
earnestly over each one, but seventeen were beyond human skill.
As fast as he pronounced them dead they were quickly dropped
overboard.
Night Celebrate The Nun closed in with our decks covered so thickly with the ebony
Celebrate The Nun bodies that with difficulty we could move about; fortunately they
were as
quiet as so Celebrate The Nun many snakes. In the meantime the first
officer, Celebrate The Nun Mr. Block, was sending up a new topgallant yard, reeving
new rigging, repairing the sails, Celebrate The Nun and getting everything ataunto
aloft. The Kroomen were busy washing out and fumigating the hold,
getting ready for Celebrate The Nun our cargo again. It would have been a very
Celebrate The Nun anxious night, except that I felt relieved by the presence of Celebrate The Nun the
brig which kept within hail. Soon after daybreak Captain Thompson
Celebrate The Nun came on board again, and we made a count of the captives as they
were sent below; 188 men and Celebrate The Nun boys, and 166 women and girls.