Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1839-09-13

powerful chiefs and all the captivss are bought
or seized, and Immediately sent to the coast Some
times hese chiefs attack villages, murder the infarts
and the aged, and the inrm Of both sexes AID drive
the others d.wn to The coast to sell Cinguez says
his LAther was chief, and that he himself was kid
mapped and sold to the Spsniards. ! Inferred from
some rei"etant admissions that were extoTted from
him, however, that he was seized by Shaker, q
powerful king, near the mouth of the river Gambia,
after he had sold q parcel of slaves on his Iwn &C
count The IA probably is, that Cinguez, reso
iute active. and energetic fellow, had been sxten
siveiy engaged in the slave trade, aud finally was
caught IN the snare he had successfully spread tor
others eluash, his brother, and Faquo'na, aud one
other, whose name | could not understand, were
Iron Cmguez own village and were soid Oy nm 20
Sharker Cnguez is shrewd and sharpwittes Tor
negro and after he had been assured BY the in,erPre
ter that his designs were friendly he communicated
with HIM freely, and with apparent trankness lie
has wife and three children in Africa, and he is
ANXIOUS To return, not much tosee them as 10 pun
ish the treachcry Of Sharker In speaking OF TINS
cruel person his usually dull eye bazed with an ex
preston Of great ferocity, and ne drew ms hsnd
across his throat indicating thereby his thirst Tor
vengeance. He was placed on board OF Spanish
vessel with his victims, near the mouth OF the
Gambia, and there he first met the miserable animals
who were his companions in the L'Amistad The
vessel nwhich he embarked, in company with 20
more slaves, was q poacre OF $50 tons The
greater part Of the slaves males and females, inter-
MINGLED promIs cuously, confined in the between
decks, where the space less than three eet
They were chained together by the arms, legs, and
necks, and so remained during the whole voyage &c
Havana, whica lasted six weeks. Fiftysevsn slaves
died on the passage. The remainder were landed at
Havana and confined In sort of pen for weeks,
when Cinguez and his present companions were
bought and shipped by Senior Ruez, for Principe.
His account Of the result, and the subsequent
trasactions did not very essentially differ from those
already published.
Canorna, the pretended canibal, is an Eboe,
tribe that inhabit the Shore few leagues to the
southwark of the equator
They are exceedingly ignorant and debased, and
this miserable and loathsome object was almost
worshipped by them, on account of his idiocy.
There are Eboes among the slaves-four with the
canibai, and in another ward. WithI the excep-
tion Of the Jaoopes, perhaps there is no otter tribe
in Western Africa in state Of more hopeless igno-
rance and barbarism, than the Eboes. They COM
mand less price than any other slaves, on account
Of their impracticable stupidity, and the want OF
physical power. They slender and loosely
built, with axed and feeble muscles, and never
Of much service as field hands. They sacrifice hui
victims to the God Fetish, but are not cant
balls.
p. S.-The idea that has been suggested in some
Of your city papers, that the Africans must be tried
in New York, if at ALL because they were captured
in your waters, is erroneous Pirates can be tried
any wheIe.