Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-09-25
September s5, 1889.
From the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
TO THE COMMITTEE, sc.
.n,rArE ExAMINATIoN or GIN.

vaIyATE EXAMINATION OF CINQUEz,
alias JINGUA.
This morning went into the hospitaI
dsnarment Of the prison with DIR. Hook.
~ Five or six are sick with the white
anx or diarrhea, peculiar to warm eli.
mates--one or two of them dangerously.
az the physician thinks, who, through the
interpreter, conversed for the first time
with his patients. Some of the sick are
,onyalescing. The doctor says he has
seldom had patients who showed so much
gratitude when relieved by Incidence
One Of the sick men, named Jooeh, writes
in some unknown language, which does
not appear 10 be the Arabic. Thew said
ihsy were forced to drink great deal Of
salt water, on board the SLAYER, and thai
made them sick. DR.. Hooker brouc bt
them woollen socks, and administered
medicine which they took very readily
Il seems providential circumstance that
these men were thrown upon the A neri.
can coast near here. and that they were
brought 10 this city. Where could thew
have been better situated? The doctor
asked the Congo if he should not pull out
his two tusk-like teeth, and he said. no.
40, evidently pricing them very much
This man has been described in some of
the papers as a man-eater, and almost a
monster in his appearance, but he is nei-
:heE
Between nine and ten o'clock private
examination OF Cinquez Tor as it should
be spelled, Jingua,) and one of his COM
rades, named Bowie, took place in room
inlhe jaior's house. There were present
Norris Wilcox, Esq. marshal of the dis.
lrct Seth b. Staples, Esq, r. s. Bald
win, Esq, Professors Olmstead and Gibbs.
Rev. Messrs. Bacon and Ludlow, Antho-
ny the black boy, who speaks Spanish
only, the native African interpreter and
myself. Cinquez Tor rather Jingua,l and
Bowie are natives Of the same tribe, the
Alaodlngo, but as the later can speak the
Gallnas dialect better than the former.
The interpreter, who, though neither a
Mandingo nor GalIina, but Kissi.
(which was incorrectly spelled in a previ.
GUS communication Geeshee) found it ca
'a 10 converse with Jingua by the aid of
Bowie, who translated the Gallinas to
him in Mandingo.-We endeavored TO
impress upon their minds, in the first
place, that we were their friends, and that
they must speak the truth. Both of them
appeared 20 have some idea of good
Spirit, aud also of an evil Spirit. They
said God is good and il they told lies,
the evil Spirit would take them some
where they did not know where. jim
qua had been asked il he did not know
haI God would punish him if he did not
speak The truth, and he replied yes and
added in his own language me tell no
hei me tell the truth Jingua said he
Knew that if they do good they will go to
God, and if they do bad the evil one will
gel them. On being asked where God
was, he pointed upward.
Jlngua repeated that he left his father,
mother, wife and three children in Africa,
and Bowie said he left his mother three
brothers and two sisters at his native
place, Badebou. Bowie said it was six
Of seven days travel from Mandingo to
GalIlnas near the sea, and he did not
know any town named Manding. II is
supposed that they came from Mace near
he sources of the river NigeiT When
be first saw Jingua he was at Manu-, and
he next time, he met him on board the
slave brig The river on whose banks
he Interpreter was born is called the
Moau. 1t runs through the district where
hngua was born, 10 The sea. 1t is some-
ames very deep. They stated that they
had been in battles, in their own country,
using nuskets, but had never been kid
mPpers. l would never take any advant-
age OF any one, said Jingua, but would al
ways defend myself. Bowie said his old
est brother was in debt, and they sold him,
pay It. They have no money there,
SAID ne, and trade away men instead OF
money. They often trade people away
'ne Spanlards, for powder and guns
bowie said there was great slavery in
SOalllnas. This is the place where Don
b.laneo, the great slave trader, pursues
Ils hellish business.l They stated that
aey were brought down the country to
ne sea-coast, and were chained when pu,
y board the SLAYER, which was brig
49, ! was crowded with slaves, there being
w. men, 800 women, and plenty Of
SulldreO' Jipgua here got down on he
o ao0t' to show US how they were slowed
~ BOARD, then moved about on his knees
Sau as he rose put his hand on the top O.
us head, 10 indicate how low the decl
vas They said their sufferings were
s s.ea! on the passage, and several of lhei
lumber had died.
me, lGey stated that they were nearly two
~Ou'hS going to Havana. There the,
O %He put on shore, at the city, in tn
Ignt and ironed hand and foot. Beside
I'S' every two were chained together a
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