Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1842-06-20

will rob me of these sixty half douboops fastened
round my waist; if they do may they never re-
ceive absolution The miscreants. He grnds his
teeth, lights fresh cigar, and continues walking
the deck.
Behold that skeleton form the unfortunate
breathes her pulse still beats; her heart even
yet utters family to the touch of humanity
few days since, an infant hung at her breast
thrice happy innocent it died-it was starved
and she, the poor mother, has been starved too!
she has existed these last sixty days on few
handouts of iarina and two gis of puirid water
per day she has lived in the hold upon some
hard plnnks all this time; look at her excorialod
flesh When she embarked there we've two hun
dred OF her slowed with her in bulk lone
hundred and thirty now remnn She might havo
saved herself and sacrificed her child nature
gave her mothers love Tor her offspring; she
nourished and Rugged 1t 10 her boson until the
lille corpse taken from her 10y force, thrown
into the sea. While we nre looking size is dying
she is dead "Oh death where is thy sng"
Friend of humanity tnn 10 tbs nest OF little
ones, all IN the last stage of the small poX 90 in the
cuufuent state their bodies are one uass ofsores (;
their tongues are olilng out OF their rarched
mouths as begging for water: they cannot speak
they utter inarticulae sounds hut in few hours
they will he quite still,-yes! they will be where
the "wicked cease from troubling, aud The weary
are at rest, they die without groan watch
them narrowly as YOU may, you will not perceive
their transition from life TO death! The black,
CLASSY eve is half open md almost transputent.-
1t quvers lit is fixed in death.
Mark that living skeleton! Tying with his face
| to the deck, one little month and that man
Hercules but fearful of his strength, the villains
have kent him in close irons; this is Inc first time
| he has brca,hed the air of Heaven since he en-
! barked Look at his lengthy frnme-hs slinken
| eyes-his lank laws-his attenuated limbs; the
bones seem willing to burst through tho tlail GOV
cring of skin that surrounds ,bem vou ,nuv cnunt
| every rib. lie was one of the brnye men of his
tribe he WINS doubtless taken fiphtine hnhd TO
hand defending his wife. his children. his home
even the rude hut in the Nilds of Africa: hut he
was surrounded and taken prisoner and driven
with hundreds of others like Aocl,s of sheen. 10
the sea coast See he moves
lie Ionps upon hi, band-bis manly brow
Consents to DEATH but conquers agony,
Ana his dropped head SINKS gradually low'
Yonder are some suffering from oplhaimla--all
more or less blind; one Is totally so and every
now and then he endeavors to throw hlnseit o.
verboard, and when he is restrained, he numhleS
something alh points TO ms eyes, MS nuch as to
say " why should live! am OF no use-ran
only exist in utter darkness-let me put an end to
my miserles"
1hey are serving out the water !--Hee what
rush there is IN The alter halchway; meu, wo-
men, chlldren, now eagerly they watch their turn
10 grasp Inc niue calaoasl whcb is nan hllcd Tor
each one. IL holds just pnti with what agony
lraid, dreadialy AFRAID they shall be forgotten
How ihey creep between The Ie%s OF the taller
ones, 10 get nearer me tuo! a dozen hands are
tnfns' III al once; WIN whnt envy ihey regard
'he fortunate possesSor ana now 'hey watch ev-
cry crop tha' passes doWn MS poor parched
throat, and snatch II IRON his grasp ere II IS quite
empty! Mn'h strength mere WINS me dhy ihey
'"Ve '''e resPeot 10 ,Ie""s " co'''r""eS IN ms
'o''""e' an" "o |.,t'u1' e"N" 10 e""e"Fo'i"S u
P iI1eih1 n'S us o"' III 49,, MI,
ilH'h ""',r spas" was '"a' lucy nave Just
Ho'e TWO uh'oI'uhaea o,e'oouio 'ne'r oodes
were ye, |arn o,' .' n; "e.e enou'';"e'ns the
'''""ou ,'o'Ne '''o "ie' "ol0 s'"'',"s "'ou'"
,neni; anu even .'e c ar was ueoIu'.ne 'a'l'eu
I"u 'hcy are 10" ioo" ,oi ti'o s"uINs' TWO VI
tieSo lu o .'1u'u'ee nav o'eu sOsIu WIN
l'u''i"n nes'' ou. tnes "'V eu''s"e' '"oy WIN
c""'' .'o '"s' '''''''' o'' '"e" '"0y ~ !" se"'op
i'' rio'e' -
N'i'e oo"'eS nave zee" oVerooa'" 'o-uhy'
'ust peep ao"u 'p.o '',e '''en s'nNe room,
no" close anu po'sonous ''1 Atmosphere o"'y
'hree ieet irom !he P'anNs 10 me necN ao"Ve' tney
""s' a'' squat uo"' III one r'si''pn '"oNe tney
ca'''o'; Immense eagnels 'or noid'rg water are
s'o"eu away unuerneh" some ""'e ie''oWs nla''-
age 10 crawl net"eeh lhe Piahks-t hey ma the
bunghoe OF me CASKS Necessity Is me mo'her
VI ih'euuon ,"ey 'eu "" P"iuon VI "'e rug t"al
is ued ROUND lhelr waist ana "h'ch is thelr only
co'erlhgi ias'eh IL 10 rope yarh' ana lower It
INTO me casK 10 'hey ara" up suck out all
lhe MOISTURE ai'o so again. uh'ii 'heir ihsa|a'e
lh'rst is SOMEWHAT aoa'e". some never come up
again. perhaps canho'' ana so u'e beneath The
planks' a'u are NOT discovered UNIV 'he confined
alr pe'o" becomes RANK l,osoo ana men search
IS mace ana putrid oouy 'onllo ana cast over
poarn'
iee' nor pun OF WIN" rom tbe SCUM west
tiie uense c.ouu III 'ie ''o''H'' 70 'Si"s iasl IA
iash o, lsn'h'ng ISSUES rom lit pegins 10 spn1-
Ter WIN rams 'hs por'ehds squat Unhappy
"re'cnes you NUS ii'.' uee1t"u WIN what reluc-
lance 'hey g9--'he strongest showing 'he weak De-
lote 'hem' LOOK at '',e FOREST OF human heads
WIN 'heir faces turned upward peeplhs through
me barred down grauhss oil the hatch"ay What
showing squeezing, cuuhg' ana yelllns'to get the
ehvea perrin nrnte lorce again carries the day,
anu me weak squat nowh ~ nespa'r 'he'r breasts
hea'e lhey gasp tor u 'il''e ar
"A SNORT Vne before we captured ner, .hey were
| all battened down IN n ehle OF wind Yes, they